{"id":2101,"date":"2010-03-20T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/2101"},"modified":"2010-03-20T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:25:58","slug":"send-in-the-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/03\/20\/send-in-the-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Send in the clowns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually cheer for Stephen Colbert&#8217;s guests to one-up him as it means a better repartee for the audience to enjoy. But I was very impressed when Stephen essentially <a href=http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/267675\/march-18-2010\/mary-matalin>shut down<\/a> Mary Matalin. It&#8217;s a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Republican party spokespeople have long enjoyed a rhetorical advantage on television because they changed their game while their interlocutors didn&#8217;t. (Imagine a rugby team playing against a touch football squad.)<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Colbert plays the same game as these propagandists. And he&#8217;s better at it. The same can often be said for Jon Stewart. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great opportunity: send out comedians as your defensive line while attempting to score with reasonable policy. It might just work.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually cheer for Stephen Colbert&#8217;s guests to one-up him as it means a better repartee for the audience to enjoy. But I was very impressed when Stephen essentially shut down Mary Matalin. It&#8217;s a thing of beauty. Republican party spokespeople have long enjoyed a rhetorical advantage on television because they changed their game while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"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=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}