{"id":305,"date":"2008-09-11T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2008-09-11T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T20:08:18","slug":"steve-carrell-nails-mccain-on-pork-barrelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/09\/11\/steve-carrell-nails-mccain-on-pork-barrelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Steve Carrell's Interview of John McCain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/09\/10\/flashback-steve-carrell-n_n_125354.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to an interview of John McCain by Steve Carrell in 2000.<\/p>\n<h2>Spoiler alert &#8212;<\/h2>\n<p>He asked McCain how he could reconcile his criticism of pork-barrel politics with the fact that &#8220;while you were chairman of the Commerce Committee, that committee set a record for unauthorized appropriations.&#8221; For a long moment, McCain was speechless.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_281\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/lieometer-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-281\" title=\"lieometer-01\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/lieometer-01.png\" alt=\"1 LPM\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1 Lie Per Minute<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to an interview of John McCain by Steve Carrell in 2000. Spoiler alert &#8212; He asked McCain how he could reconcile his criticism of pork-barrel politics with the fact that &#8220;while you were chairman of the Commerce Committee, that committee set a record for unauthorized appropriations.&#8221; For a long moment, McCain was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[146,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-lies","8":"tag-politics","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}