{"id":4883,"date":"2008-09-03T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/i-didnt-say-it\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T19:45:15","slug":"i-didnt-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/03\/i-didnt-say-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t say it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe McCain campaign is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/sep\/03\/uselections2008.sarahpalin\">rallying around Sarah Palin:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn suggested that Palin&#8217;s work on the parent-teacher association of her son&#8217;s school gave her useful experience for the vice-presidency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every woman in this room knows that if you can handle being a room mother &#8230; a PTA chairwoman, Girl Scout cookie mom, there&#8217;s a lot of things you have the ability, the organisational skills, to handle. She transferred those leadership skills to the political arena.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damning with faint praise.<\/p>\n<p>This is out-front and honest: Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan talking about the Palin nomination on hot mikes. Money quote: &#8220;It&#8217;s over&#8221; &#8211; Noonan.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CrG8w4bb3kg&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McCain campaign is rallying around Sarah Palin: Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn suggested that Palin&#8217;s work on the parent-teacher association of her son&#8217;s school gave her useful experience for the vice-presidency. &#8220;Every woman in this room knows that if you can handle being a room mother &#8230; a PTA chairwoman, Girl Scout cookie mom, there&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/03\/i-didnt-say-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I didn&#8217;t say it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-4883","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-1gL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}