{"id":196528,"date":"2008-04-16T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/16\/the-debates\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T03:58:00","slug":"the-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/16\/the-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switched over to them after 5 minutes from Olbermann, because I didn&#8217;t want to hear the intro.<\/p>\n<p>Should have waited 10, but the whole Olbermann hatin&#8217; on Hil is getting really old.<\/p>\n<p>Then the questions.  Stupid, really stupid vacuous question.  Back to Olbermann. More hatin&#8217; on Hil, back to the debate, and more evidence that Mike Judge was an optimist when he wrote and directed <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Idiocracy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>At the rate this is going I expect Gibson to ask about the designated hitter rule.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t take it.  I&#8217;m switching to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Good Eats<\/span> (Alton Brown) until &#8220;Bushed&#8221; on Olbermann.<\/p>\n<p>I am not alone in my opinions, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/17\/AR2008041700013.html\">here<\/a> (&#8220;shoddy, despicable performances), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003790556\">here<\/a> (&#8220;<span>perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major pr<\/span><span>esidential debate in years&#8221;<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>I watched perhaps 15 minutes of the debate, it was all I could take.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I&#8217;ll do the home root canal kit instead, or if I can&#8217;t do that, then I&#8217;ll watch a Fox TV reality show **shudder**.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switched over to them after 5 minutes from Olbermann, because I didn&#8217;t want to hear the intro. Should have waited 10, but the whole Olbermann hatin&#8217; on Hil is getting really old. Then the questions. Stupid, really stupid vacuous question. Back to Olbermann. More hatin&#8217; on Hil, back to the debate, and more evidence that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196528"}],"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=196528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}