{"id":1675,"date":"2008-10-16T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2008\/10\/the_monkey_wrench_debate\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:52:09","slug":"the_monkey_wrench_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/10\/the_monkey_wrench_debate.html","title":{"rendered":"The Monkey Wrench Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DvdfO0lq4rQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"Click to watch the complete video of the Grand Guignol (if you can stand it).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/MonkeyWrench-thumb-180x65.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"65\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>Quick take on who won, besides <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/trail08\/2008\/10\/15\/does-joe-the-plumber-know-joe-six-pack\/\">Joe the Plumber<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/10\/15\/debate.poll\/index.html\">CNN poll:<\/a>  <em>Debate watchers say Obama wins.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,1850944,00.html\"><em>Time<\/em> magazine:<\/a> <em>McCain Threw the Sink &#8212; and Plumber &#8212; But Obama Doesn&#8217;t Falter.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/15\/politics\/horserace\/entry4525171.shtml\">CBS poll:<\/a> <em>Uncommitted Voters Say Obama Won Final Debate.<\/em><br \/>\nSo anyone who believes the kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/playerIndex?id=6047419\">horseshit being dished up<\/a> by George Stephanopoulos that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/06\/the_gasbag_and_dr_no.html\">Gasbag<\/a> did well in the opening minutes or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/162060\">put Obama on the defensive<\/a>, as Newsweek had it (per AP), needs a new plumber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick take on who won, besides Joe the Plumber. CNN poll: Debate watchers say Obama wins. Time magazine: McCain Threw the Sink &#8212; and Plumber &#8212; But Obama Doesn&#8217;t Falter. CBS poll: Uncommitted Voters Say Obama Won Final Debate. So anyone who believes the kind of horseshit being dished up by George Stephanopoulos that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-r1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}