{"id":197837,"date":"2008-01-08T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/08\/this-is-really-classy\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T22:36:00","slug":"this-is-really-classy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/08\/this-is-really-classy\/","title":{"rendered":"This is REALLY Classy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, one of the things I prefer about the British is their culture of heckling.<br \/>Not only is heckling expected, but politicians are expected to be able to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>I think that it would result in more substantive campaigns, because the average voter\/heckler has the ability to drive the focus, and politicians have to be quick on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>I think it makes it harder for someone to become president just because they are the idiot son of a previous president.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, if America were to adopt this model, we would need remedial education for hecklers, because <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/politics\/blog\/2008\/01\/iron_my_short_men_removed_from.html\">lordy, this is lame<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Two men were just removed from a high school auditorium where Sen. Hillary Clinton is speaking, after they stood up during her speech, lifted signs and chanted &#8220;iron my shirt.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, if you are going to do this, spend some time coming up with something that makes <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">her<\/span> look bad, not something that makes <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">you<\/span> look bad.<\/p>\n<p>This is just so &#8220;high school&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, one of the things I prefer about the British is their culture of heckling.Not only is heckling expected, but politicians are expected to be able to deal with it. I think that it would result in more substantive campaigns, because the average voter\/heckler has the ability to drive the focus, and politicians have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,978,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197837"}],"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=197837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}