{"id":574,"date":"2008-10-01T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2008-10-01T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T19:01:34","slug":"is-mccain-a-reality-based-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/10\/01\/is-mccain-a-reality-based-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Is McCain a Reality Based Candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"McCain at Des Moines Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/01\/mccain-gets-testy-with-de_n_130801.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to see excerpts of McCain&#8217;s interview with the editorial board of the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If this isn&#8217;t truly the most scary interview that a presidential candidate has ever given, then I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n<p>Not only has he lost all ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy, but he appears to be just barely able to control his explosive temper.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he didn&#8217;t actually believed what he was saying in this interview.\u00a0 In that case, what someone has observed as the equivalent of a tell in poker showed up if you watch the video carefully.\u00a0 I just heard a verbal description of the tell, so I don&#8217;t know if the tell occurred when he poked out his lips with his tongue or it was the sticking his tongue out between his lips that is considered the tell.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Stephen Colbert was the first to notice.\u00a0 Watch the end of <a title=\"Colbert on McCain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/videos\/index.jhtml?videoId=186455\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this video clip<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further research, I find that it is the <a title=\"Tongue Jut is a Tell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2008\/09\/tongue-jut.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>tongue jut that is the tell<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to see excerpts of McCain&#8217;s interview with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register. If this isn&#8217;t truly the most scary interview that a presidential candidate has ever given, then I don&#8217;t know what is. Not only has he lost all ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy, but he appears [&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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}