{"id":1089,"date":"2008-09-23T16:43:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T21:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2008-09-23T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T20:13:12","slug":"fun-fact-about-mccain-4-smears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact About McCain #4: Smears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]McCain has &#8220;hired to run this campaign&#8221; &#8220;the very people&#8221; who smeared McCain in the infamous 2000 primary in South Carolina against Bush (as Joe Biden has claimed.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><strong>Actually True<\/strong>. Or at least McCain has hired some of them. ABC News reported that <a id=\"bpnk\" title=\"McCain hired Tucker Eskew\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2008\/09\/mccain-hires-go.html\">McCain hired Tucker Eskew<\/a> and the firm that made the <a id=\"ycqa\" title=\"Swift Boat ads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/04\/us\/politics\/04mccain.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin\">Swift Boat ads<\/a> he criticized in 2004. From denouncing to hiring smear artists &#8211; that&#8217;s change you can believe in.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]McCain has &#8220;hired to run this campaign&#8221; &#8220;the very people&#8221; who smeared McCain in the infamous 2000 primary in South Carolina against Bush (as Joe Biden has claimed.) Actually True. Or at least McCain has hired some of them. ABC News reported that McCain hired Tucker Eskew and the firm that made the Swift Boat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,45,4],"tags":[626,797,795,796],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics","tag-joe-biden","tag-south-carolina","tag-swift-boat-ads","tag-tucker-eskew"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-hz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}