{"id":23,"date":"2006-10-31T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-10-31T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T07:20:00","slug":"politics-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/10\/politics-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagedhomes.com\/news\/images\/todayshow_logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stagedhomes.com\/news\/images\/todayshow_logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>With America going to the polls on 7th November, anyone tempted <a href='http:\/\/www.jonathanfreedland.com\/books.html#revolution'>Jonny Freedland<\/a>-style  to laud their dynamic political culture will have to squeeze past this gem from NBC&#8217;s <em>Today Show<\/em>. It features Republican National Committee boss Ken Mehlman and Terry McAuliffe, former head of the Democratic National Committee. Stuck in the middle, <em>Today<\/em> anchor Meredith Vieira:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>DEMOCRAT: &#8230;They can&#8217;t blame the Democrats. They&#8217;ve controlled the spending for the last six years. Record deficit. Spending up 8 percent.<br \/>REPUBLICAN: The deficit &#8211; the deficit&#8230;<br \/>DEMOCRAT: Under Bill Clinton it was up 3.2 percent.<br \/>REPUBLICAN: The deficit declined by 40 percent this past year!<br \/><em>ANCHOR: You know what, guys, we gotta stop here. We could &#8211; guys &#8211; we could talk forever. We&#8217;ve only got two and a half weeks&#8230;<\/em><br \/>REPUBLICAN: The deficit&#8217;s 40 percent lower this past year than it was before &#8230;<br \/><em>ANCHOR: &#8230;till the election. Guys. Hello?<\/em><br \/>DEMOCRAT: New direction for America. You know, culture of corruption&#8230;<br \/><em>ANCHOR: Talk amongst yourselves. We&#8217;ve run out of time. We have two and a half weeks&#8230;<\/em><br \/>DEMOCRAT: All right, Meredith. Good to be with you. Right.<br \/><em>ANCHOR: &#8230;till the elections&#8230;<\/em><br \/>REPUBLICAN: We&#8217;ll continue &#8211; we&#8217;ll continue this in the green room.<br \/>DEMOCRAT: Vote Democrat!<br \/><em>ANCHOR: &#8230;But you know what? That&#8217;s a lifetime in politics. Thanks. Ken Mehlman, Terry McAuliffe.<\/em><br \/>MEHLMAN: We&#8217;ll continue this in the green room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inspiring stuff for political show producers everywhere.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjrdaily.org\/politics\/crossfire_on_the_today_show_pl.php\">CJR<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With America going to the polls on 7th November, anyone tempted Jonny Freedland-style to laud their dynamic political culture will have to squeeze past this gem from NBC&#8217;s Today Show. It features Republican National Committee boss Ken Mehlman and Terry McAuliffe, former head of the Democratic National Committee. Stuck in the middle, Today anchor Meredith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}