{"id":195137,"date":"2008-07-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/27\/is-the-media-beginning-to-explore-the-hypocrisy-that-is-john-mccain\/"},"modified":"2008-07-27T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T04:00:00","slug":"is-the-media-beginning-to-explore-the-hypocrisy-that-is-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/27\/is-the-media-beginning-to-explore-the-hypocrisy-that-is-john-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Media Beginning to Explore the Hypocrisy That is John McCain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain has argued that Barack Obama has not attended enough hearings on Afghanistan.  Well, ABC News&#8217; Z. Byron Wolf burnt a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">very<\/span> small amount of shoe leather, and determined that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2008\/07\/hearing-gate-ex.html\">McCain has attended no hearing on at all on Afghanistan in the past two years<\/a>, though McCain is apparently asking for a get out of jail free card on this because, &#8220;McCain&#8217;s years of previous foreign policy experience make up for his recent lack of attendance at hearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing that the McCain loving press is actually mentioning that he&#8217;s criticizing Obama for things he&#8217;s done worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain has argued that Barack Obama has not attended enough hearings on Afghanistan. Well, ABC News&#8217; Z. Byron Wolf burnt a very small amount of shoe leather, and determined that McCain has attended no hearing on at all on Afghanistan in the past two years, though McCain is apparently asking for a get out &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-195137","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\/195137"}],"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=195137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}