{"id":9438,"date":"2006-12-26T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9438.html"},"modified":"2006-12-26T10:29:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T15:29:55","slug":"can-we-please-retire-this-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/can-we-please-retire-this-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we please retire this joke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP ran <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20061225\/ap_on_el_ge\/online_campaigns\">a story<\/a> over the weekend about the ways in which presidential hopefuls are turning to the Internet to boost their chances. It&#8217;s a fairly routine piece, but it leads with a joke that has long since outlived its usefulness.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al Gore claimed he invented it. John McCain predicted it would revolutionize political campaigning. Howard Dean made it pay &#8212; and then some.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, the six-year-old Gore joke. What would an article about politics and the web be without it?<\/p>\n<p>In a word, better. Look, this was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/features\/2000\/0004.parry.html\">debunked years ago<\/a>. Gore didn&#8217;t claim to invent it; he actually did take the lead congressional role in developing the Internet as we know it today; and media coverage of the claim has always been ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, he we are, six years later, and the AP is still going for the cheap laugh. Isn&#8217;t it time to retire this joke once and for all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP ran a story over the weekend about the ways in which presidential hopefuls are turning to the Internet to boost their chances. It&#8217;s a fairly routine piece, but it leads with a joke that has long since outlived its usefulness. Al Gore claimed he invented it. John McCain predicted it would revolutionize political [&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-9438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438","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=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}