{"id":193931,"date":"2008-11-05T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/05\/more-circular-firing-squad-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T03:48:00","slug":"more-circular-firing-squad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/05\/more-circular-firing-squad-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Circular Firing Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to McCain for <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">years<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/11\/05\/soruces-mccain-aide-fired-for-trashing-staff\/\">got fired a week before election day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that he was leaking stuff to the press that dissed his fellow campaign members to the apparrent benefit of Palin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct contact with journalists spreading &#8220;disinformation&#8221; about campaign aides, including Nicolle Wallace and other officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was positioning himself with Palin at the expense of John McCain&#8217;s campaign message,&#8221; said one of the aides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I thought that Hillary&#8217;s campaign team was dysfunctional.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather have Mark Penn on my side than <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">any<\/span> of these guys&#8230;.I can&#8217;t fracking believe that I just said that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to McCain for years, got fired a week before election day. It appears that he was leaking stuff to the press that dissed his fellow campaign members to the apparrent benefit of Palin: One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}