{"id":1486,"date":"2004-09-21T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2018-08-01T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T16:05:16","slug":"1486","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/21\/1486\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry on Letterman, The Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Althouse <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/kerry-on-letterman.html\" target=\"_new\">reviews John Kerry&#8217;s appearance on <i>The Late Show<\/i><\/a> last night, and she knocks it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kerry cranked out a dismal performance on David Letterman&#8217;s show last night. He alternated between rerunning lines from his stump speech and plodding through scripted jokes. Unlike Nixon on &#8220;Laugh-In&#8221; and other candidates who&#8217;ve used pop culture shows successfully, Kerry did not use self-deprecating jokes. He attacked Bush and Cheney and used &#8220;Halliburton&#8221; as a punchline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compare and contrast Kerry and Bush&#8217;s campaign speeches.  Bush cracked jokes at his own expense, Kerry, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re wound tightly into defending your <i>gravitas<\/i> and <i>authenticity<\/i> and <i>nuanced intelligence<\/i>, you have to fear that any crack you put in that image with your self-deprecating humor will cause a complete collapse of the public&#8217;s understanding of your qualification to lead the country, which is your own sense of worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Althouse reviews John Kerry&#8217;s appearance on The Late Show last night, and she knocks it: Kerry cranked out a dismal performance on David Letterman&#8217;s show last night. He alternated between rerunning lines from his stump speech and plodding through scripted jokes. Unlike Nixon on &#8220;Laugh-In&#8221; and other candidates who&#8217;ve used pop culture shows successfully, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21068,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/21068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}