{"id":969,"date":"2008-08-02T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T02:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=969"},"modified":"2009-01-03T22:28:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:28:38","slug":"for-those-not-keeping-score-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2008\/08\/02\/for-those-not-keeping-score-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"for those not keeping score at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>here&#8217;s a little background on McCain&#8217;s campaign manager. This link, circa 2006, comes to us from the always excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\">talking points memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John McCain has signed up GOP operative Terry Nelson as his campaign manager &#8212; yep, that would be the same Terry Nelson who produced the infamous, racially-charged <a href=\"http:\/\/electioncentral.tpmcafe.com\/blog\/electioncentral\/2006\/oct\/24\/tn_sen_mehlman_explains_bimbo_ad\"> &#8220;bimbo&#8221; ad<\/a> attacking Dem Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>that ad makes me vomit a bit in the back of my throat every time I see it.<\/p>\n<p>read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2006\/12\/mccain_hires_strategist_behind.php\">McCain Hires Strategist Behind Harold Ford &#8220;Bimbo&#8221; Ad As Campaign Manager<\/a><\/p>\n<p>this heads up from TPM comes as they <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/206241.php\">recount the last week of gutterball from McCain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>here&#8217;s a little background on McCain&#8217;s campaign manager. This link, circa 2006, comes to us from the always excellent talking points memo. John McCain has signed up GOP operative Terry Nelson as his campaign manager &#8212; yep, that would be the same Terry Nelson who produced the infamous, racially-charged &#8220;bimbo&#8221; ad attacking Dem Tennessee Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[112,46],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-mccain","tag-obama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-fD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}