{"id":2894,"date":"2004-10-04T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T20:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/10\/gilligans-island-meets-john-kerry\/"},"modified":"2004-10-04T13:56:51","modified_gmt":"2004-10-04T20:56:51","slug":"gilligans-island-meets-john-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/04\/gilligans-island-meets-john-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilligan’s Island meets John Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tCharlie Cook is one of our most astute political analysts, and he was not impressed by John Kerry’s debate performance:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Personally, I thought that Kerry sounded like Thurston Howell III, the snooty and condescending millionaire from “Gilligan’s Island,” but more people were comfortable with that than they were with the President’s stammering and halting delivery and repetition of same phrases and arguments. Kerry’s strongest argument was on certainty, and he did get better as the debate progressed. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Equivocating with conviction is the new Kerry hallmark.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Cook is one of our most astute political analysts, and he was not impressed by John Kerry’s debate performance: Personally, I thought that Kerry sounded like Thurston Howell III, the snooty and condescending millionaire from “Gilligan’s Island,” but more people were comfortable with that than they were with the President’s stammering and halting delivery … Continue reading “Gilligan’s Island meets John Kerry”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-KG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}