{"id":2087,"date":"2008-10-11T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2008-10-11T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T13:58:09","slug":"toning_it_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"Toning It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit of Minnesota Nice rubbed off on John McCain yesterday. The video below is from a McCain rally in Lakeville where the Arizona senator admonished a supporter who described Obama as an &#8220;Arab&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kf6YKOkfFsE&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p>McCain may finally be realizing that his campaign rallies are acquiring a distinct torches-and-pitchforks tone. Or he may just be responding to pressure from GOP party bosses who may be nervous about independent voters&#8217; reactions to TV clips of McCain supporters shouting &#8220;Kill him!&#8221; and &#8220;Terrorist!&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_F._Buckley,_Jr.\">William F. Buckley<\/a>, an unapologetic conservative elite, once said, \u201cYou know, I\u2019ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.\u201d Watch the video below from another McCain rally in Ohio and ask yourself which kind of crowd McCain and Palin are attracting. <\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KjxzmaXAg9E&#038;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit of Minnesota Nice rubbed off on John McCain yesterday. The video below is from a McCain rally in Lakeville where the Arizona senator admonished a supporter who described Obama as an &#8220;Arab&#8221;. McCain may finally be realizing that his campaign rallies are acquiring a distinct torches-and-pitchforks tone. Or he may just be <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2087' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-xF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}