{"id":2902,"date":"2006-01-15T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2017-12-22T07:25:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:25:32","slug":"conan-obrien-skirts-mccain-feingold-campaign-finance-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/15\/conan-obrien-skirts-mccain-feingold-campaign-finance-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan O&#8217;Brien Skirts McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By making fun of the elections <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060114\/ap_on_re_eu\/finland_election;_ylt=AjckUluR_kFpcuwrM58hNnKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-\" target=\"_new\">in Finland<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Finland&#8217;s president finds her traditional support among women and the Social Democratic Party base, but lately to the surprise of many Finns \u2014 and her opponents in Sunday&#8217;s election \u2014 she has gotten an endorsement of a different sort.<\/p>\n<p>The redheaded late-night talk show host Conan O&#8217;Brien has been promoting President Tarja Halonen&#8217;s re-election bid as part of a long-running joke about their supposed physical similarities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do I support Tarja Halonen? Because she&#8217;s got the total package: a dynamic personality, a quick mind, and most importantly \u2014 my good looks,&#8221; the comedian, whose show is broadcast on cable in Finland, said in a statement to The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By making fun of the elections in Finland: Finland&#8217;s president finds her traditional support among women and the Social Democratic Party base, but lately to the surprise of many Finns \u2014 and her opponents in Sunday&#8217;s election \u2014 she has gotten an endorsement of a different sort. The redheaded late-night talk show host Conan O&#8217;Brien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-news","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","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=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18963,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions\/18963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}