{"id":5982,"date":"2005-12-02T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T19:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2005-12-02T14:40:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T19:40:57","slug":"somewhere-karl-rove-is-thinking-why-didnt-i-think-of-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/somewhere-karl-rove-is-thinking-why-didnt-i-think-of-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere, Karl Rove is thinking, &#8216;Why didn&#8217;t I think of that?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the crowd noise at Indianapolis Colts&#8217; games can get so loud, some have begun to wonder if the team is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepittsburghchannel.com\/sports\/5451725\/detail.html\">enhancing<\/a>&#8221; the sound through artificial means.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Indianapolis Colts deny they supplemented the already loud crowd noise in the RCA Dome during Monday night&#8217;s game against the Steelers by pumping heavy bass noise through the stadium&#8217;s speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Senior executive vice president Pete Ward told the Indianapolis Star the Colts have the loudest stadium in the league, &#8220;with the fans naturally providing that sound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Any crowd noise enhancement would be a violation of NFL rules, but NFL spokesman Steve Alic says the league is not investigating whether the Colts tried to make it difficult for the Steelers&#8217; offensive players to hear the snap counts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a political context, I have to wonder why the Bush gang &#8212; who&#8217;ve taken scripted stagecraft to new depths &#8212; didn&#8217;t think of this first. Not enough people showed up to cheer the president? No problem! Just turn up the volume on the Applause-o-Meter 9000!<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, how do we know they <i>haven&#8217;t<\/i> thought of this before? Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the crowd noise at Indianapolis Colts&#8217; games can get so loud, some have begun to wonder if the team is &#8220;enhancing&#8221; the sound through artificial means. The Indianapolis Colts deny they supplemented the already loud crowd noise in the RCA Dome during Monday night&#8217;s game against the Steelers by pumping heavy bass noise through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}