{"id":340,"date":"2008-09-04T11:03:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2008-09-04T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:03:51","slug":"the-morning-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/the-morning-after\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really trying to keep my cool after watching Sarah Palin&#8217;s speech last night.\u00a0 And the aftermath during which everyone seemed to think she really knocked one out of the park.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite parts of her speech included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The standing ovation she got when she talked about how her opponent was wrong to have detainees at Guantanamo read their rights.\u00a0 Boo constitution!\u00a0 Yay police state!<\/li>\n<li>Her continual references to how Obama will raise taxes.\u00a0 Neglecting to mention that these taxes would be those of the richest 5% of Americans.<\/li>\n<li>Her repeated references to how her opponent doesn&#8217;t want offshore drilling (incorrect!).<\/li>\n<li>The premise that offshore drilling alone will lead to energy independence.\u00a0 As if the only reason why we keep importing oil from the Middle East is because we don&#8217;t want to waste our own vast reserves.\u00a0 As if we have vast reserves.\u00a0 As if it&#8217;s not all going to run out in our lifetimes.<\/li>\n<li>The repeated cut-aways to her pregnant daughter and &#8216;special needs child&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>The complete lack of any content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only thing that made me feel any better last night was watching the Daily Show.\u00a0 John Stewart was on fire last night.\u00a0 I really wish CNN would run stories like this.\u00a0 Anderson Cooper is a smart guy too, right?\u00a0 Why is it I feel like the only news source I can trus these days is Comedy Central?\u00a0 &lt;sigh&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s Jonny:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"332\" height=\"316\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"comedy_central_player\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#cccccc\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=184086\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Finally: apologies.\u00a0 I try to keep this blog away from personal politics.\u00a0 But I see a real danger in Sarah Palin &#8212; the fact that she&#8217;s being positioned as an untouchable martyr by the right makes her the perfect attack dog.\u00a0 I really hope the Dems grow some teeth.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t bear the thought of another 4 years of Reganomics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really trying to keep my cool after watching Sarah Palin&#8217;s speech last night.\u00a0 And the aftermath during which everyone seemed to think she really knocked one out of the park. My favorite parts of her speech included: The standing ovation she got when she talked about how her opponent was wrong to have detainees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[152,161,28,162,156,155],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-and-raves","tag-daily-show","tag-john-stewart","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-rnc","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}