{"id":195086,"date":"2008-07-30T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/mccain-loses\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T01:36:00","slug":"mccain-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/mccain-loses\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Loses&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-blog.com\/swampland\/2008\/07\/update_obama_and_the_troops.html\">Time&#8217;s Karen Timulty<\/a>, &#8220;So how many more times are the McCain campaign and the Republicans going to repeat what is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">thoroughly baseless charge<\/span>?&#8221; (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/29\/AR2008072902286.html?hpid=topnews\">The front page of the Washington Post<\/a>, &#8220;For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a military hospital because he could not take reporters with him, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">despite no evidence that the charge is true<\/span>.&#8221; (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/30\/opinion\/30wed1.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th&amp;oref=slogin\">New York Times Editorial Board<\/a>, &#8220;Many voters are wondering whether a McCain presidency would be an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">extension of Mr. Bush\u2019s two disastrous terms<\/span>. If the way Mr. McCain is running his campaign these days is an indication, Americans <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">don\u2019t have to wait until next January for the answer to that one<\/span>.&#8221; (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that the &#8220;Straight Talk Express&#8221; has worn out the batteries?  Because this stuff looks suspiciously like <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">journalism<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time&#8217;s Karen Timulty, &#8220;So how many more times are the McCain campaign and the Republicans going to repeat what is a thoroughly baseless charge?&#8221; (emphasis mine) The front page of the Washington Post, &#8220;For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195086"}],"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=195086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}