{"id":1687,"date":"2009-12-19T07:16:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2009-12-19T07:16:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T14:16:32","slug":"doggone-it-people-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/12\/19\/doggone-it-people-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Doggone it, people like me.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister%27s_Questions\">Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions<\/a> but, edited, the following performance is pretty entertaining. Senator Al Franken arguing on behalf of the reality-based community:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HbLrky2lMt0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HbLrky2lMt0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I know Franken as a comedian (I&#8217;m old enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=stuart+smalley\">remember<\/a> &#8220;Doggone it, people like me.&#8221;) so I&#8217;m primed to experience what he says as entertainment. That <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/gadamer\/#PosPre\">prejudice<\/a> or, in marketing terms, consideration, is a significant advantage in our highly competitive media marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Priming_(psychology)\">Priming<\/a> has bolstered the careers of  Republicans like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan. It&#8217;s also key to understanding the role that talk radio and now Glenn Beck plays for the right wing. It&#8217;s nice to see that psychological &#8220;shortcut&#8221; working for a Democrat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions but, edited, the following performance is pretty entertaining. Senator Al Franken arguing on behalf of the reality-based community: I know Franken as a comedian (I&#8217;m old enough to remember &#8220;Doggone it, people like me.&#8221;) so I&#8217;m primed to experience what he says as entertainment. That prejudice or, in marketing terms,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}