{"id":2787,"date":"2004-10-18T10:26:30","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2787.html"},"modified":"2004-10-18T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T15:26:30","slug":"feeling-gored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/feeling-gored\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Gored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were looking for yet another reason to shake your head in disgust at the national media&#8217;s coverage of the campaign, my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patridiots.com\/001024.html\">Poppy noticed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=172076&#038;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\">this AP story<\/a> on ABC News over the weekend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kerry, in Ohio, Tries Average-Guy Look<\/p>\n<p>John Kerry Dons Corduroys to Look Like an Average Guy Seeking Votes in Key State of Ohio <\/p>\n<p>John Kerry put on brown corduroy pants and a mustard yellow jacket to spend a chilly autumn day in Ohio, just an average guy looking for votes from average Ohioans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two weeks before the presidential race of the generation, the AP wants to talk about John Kerry&#8217;s clothes. And who wrote that headline? Kerry &#8220;tries average-guy look&#8221;? I&#8217;ve seen him wear a similar outfit on the campaign trail for months. This isn&#8217;t some last-minute fashion change; this is standard Kerry attire.<\/p>\n<p>Is this what we have to look forward to for the next two weeks? Stories about Kerry&#8217;s clothes and breathless op-eds on whether Kerry was &#8220;mean&#8221; to Mary Cheney? Don&#8217;t answer that; I already know what to expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were looking for yet another reason to shake your head in disgust at the national media&#8217;s coverage of the campaign, my friend Poppy noticed this AP story on ABC News over the weekend: Kerry, in Ohio, Tries Average-Guy Look John Kerry Dons Corduroys to Look Like an Average Guy Seeking Votes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}