{"id":712,"date":"2008-01-29T22:37:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T04:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=712"},"modified":"2008-02-01T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T19:38:56","slug":"limbaugh-on-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh on McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was driving around today and heard both Boortz and Limbaugh yammering about about how McCain isn&#8217;t a conservative, McCain is a liberal, McCain is the media&#8217;s choice, McCain this, McCain that. Waa waa waa. Of course, it&#8217;s odd to hear a pro-life, pro-war, federalist fiscal conservative with a lifetime ACU rating of 83 called a liberal.<\/p>\n<p>There are two reasons talk radio is so harsh on McCain and neither has anything to do with &#8220;amnesty&#8221; or McCain-Feingold. Many of these guys worship Bush, who supports both policies. No, it comes down to this:<\/p>\n<p>1) If McCain is the nominee, it will be a huge blow to talk radio. When McCain&#8217;s numbers tanked last year, the talk radio show host boasted that they&#8217;d killed him. If he is the nominee now, that means they have a lot less influence than they think.<\/p>\n<p>2) They don&#8217;t like the company McCain keeps. He works with Democrats &#8212; although not to raise taxes or blow up spending, like the good conservative Bushes have. He is endorsed by the NYT. He appears on <i>The Daily Show<\/i>. As far as they&#8217;re concerned, that&#8217;s one step away from singing <i>Koom Baya<\/i> with Michael Moore. Conservatism is often defined more by the people conservatives don&#8217;t like (Hollywood celebrities, MSM, hippies) than what they do like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was driving around today and heard both Boortz and Limbaugh yammering about about how McCain isn&#8217;t a conservative, McCain is a liberal, McCain is the media&#8217;s choice, McCain this, McCain that. Waa waa waa. Of course, it&#8217;s odd to hear a pro-life, pro-war, federalist fiscal conservative with a lifetime ACU rating of 83 called a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Limbaugh on McCain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-bu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}