{"id":284,"date":"2003-03-10T07:13:51","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T12:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/284.html"},"modified":"2003-03-10T07:13:51","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T12:13:51","slug":"sunday-night-wind-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sunday-night-wind-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night wind-down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like Carpetbagger, you consider Sunday the week&#8217;s best night for TV. Two things caught my attention that I thought deserved comment.<\/p>\n<p>First, 60 Minutes debuted the much-hyped &#8220;point-counterpoint&#8221; debate between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. If you missed it, CBS has kindly put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sections\/60minutes\/main3415.shtml\">the whole segment online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t a real debate, of course. Both participants were reading prepared texts and both traded copies of their remarks to other earlier in the week so their rebuttals would sound better. But I loved the segment anyway. Clinton obviously crushed Dole, which was fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, The Simpsons was a real classic. The show&#8217;s parody of Fox News Channel was not only hilarious, it was some of the sharpest political satire I&#8217;ve seen in a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like Carpetbagger, you consider Sunday the week&#8217;s best night for TV. Two things caught my attention that I thought deserved comment. First, 60 Minutes debuted the much-hyped &#8220;point-counterpoint&#8221; debate between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. If you missed it, CBS has kindly put the whole segment online. This wasn&#8217;t a real debate, of [&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-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}