{"id":984,"date":"2008-07-20T00:03:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T07:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=984"},"modified":"2008-07-20T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T07:03:37","slug":"john-mccain-americans-are-tired-of-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"John McCain: Americans Are Tired Of The Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/07\/12\/mccain-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">just one week ago<\/a> John McCain declared that he understands the impact of blogs on American politics, he told Conan O&#8217;Brien Friday night that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/07\/19\/mccain_takes_on_the_cable_mons.html\" target=\"_blank\">Americans are tired<\/a> of them:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Humor\/mccain-cable-monster.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Another pearl of wisdom from the the guy who last week also said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John McCain&#8230;Building a bridge to the 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that just one week ago John McCain declared that he understands the impact of blogs on American politics, he told Conan O&#8217;Brien Friday night that Americans are tired of them: Another pearl of wisdom from the the guy who last week also said&#8230; &#8220;I am learning to get online myself, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[152,1,15],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-humor","tag-john-mccain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-fS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1014,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1014","url_meta":{"origin":984,"position":0},"title":"John McCain&#8217;s Fear Of The Internets","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/13\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last month John McCain said that Americans are tired of the Internet. 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