{"id":5117,"date":"2007-11-01T16:34:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2007-11-01T16:34:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:34:58","slug":"stephen-colbert-white-house-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/stephen-colbert-white-house-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert White House-Blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bastards blocked South Carolina&#8217;s favorite son.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p> To get on the ballot, a candidate must demonstrate two requirements: that he or she is viable nationally and has spent time campaigning in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Carol Fowler, chairwoman of the state Democratic Party and a member of the executive council, suggested Wednesday that Colbert did not meet the standard of national viability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He does not appear to be campaigning to win if he is only running in one state,&#8221; she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yeah. You got him there.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/11\/01\/colbert.sc\/index.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Opponents such as Howe argued Colbert would make a mockery of the political process.<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, hell naw. You did not take that route. Do you watch the news? Do you live on the Earth?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/11\/01\/colbert.sc\/index.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">cnn<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bastards blocked South Carolina&#8217;s favorite son. To get on the ballot, a candidate must demonstrate two requirements: that he or she is viable nationally and has spent time campaigning in the state. Carol Fowler, chairwoman of the state Democratic Party and a member of the executive council, suggested Wednesday that Colbert did not meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}