{"id":897,"date":"2008-07-08T15:11:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T19:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=897"},"modified":"2008-07-08T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T19:11:16","slug":"the-most-tragically-awkward-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/07\/08\/the-most-tragically-awkward-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Tragically Awkward Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carly Fiorina came out supporting McCain&#8217;s understanding of technology, even after Obama&#8217;s site built up a grassroots site with almost a million users. I knew I recognized the name, but it wasn&#8217;t until I read the news that I remembered why: she&#8217;s the HP leader that took some sort of <em>massive<\/em> (eight-figure) retirement package after she was practically fired.<\/p>\n<p>So the McCain camp turned to Youtube to publish <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/400137\/john-mccain-solicits-creepy-videos-of-your-neighbors\">this video<\/a>, calling for videos of selfless neighbors. The Wonkette called it &#8220;the most tragically awkward video in the history of YouTube,&#8221; which didn&#8217;t immediately become clear. Obama gives really powerful speeches, whereas McCain has a gentler, more subdued voice. That isn&#8217;t necessarily a bad thing, but they really could picked a speech where he didn&#8217;t sound like he was running out of breath. (Remember, this is <em>for<\/em> McCain, not an attack ad!) But that isn&#8217;t the &#8220;tragically awkward&#8221; part. That&#8217;s when the other guy starts obviously reading from cue cards and stumbling through the speech. It kind of grows in awkwardness as it progresses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carly Fiorina came out supporting McCain&#8217;s understanding of technology, even after Obama&#8217;s site built up a grassroots site with almost a million users. I knew I recognized the name, but it wasn&#8217;t until I read the news that I remembered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/07\/08\/the-most-tragically-awkward-video\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}