{"id":2503,"date":"2008-05-05T13:32:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/watch-out-for-symbols-and-analogies\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T19:32:15","slug":"watch-out-for-symbols-and-analogies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/watch-out-for-symbols-and-analogies\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out for Symbols and Analogies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mine\">This reminds me of the piece on Saturday Night Live&#8217;s Weekend Update, in which Seth Meyers reported that Hillary compared herself to Rocky Balboa, who was &#8220;a washed up fighter ultimately beaten by the charismatic black guy. &#8220;peace, <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/2008\/05\/03\/you-cant-make-this-up\/\">The Page &#8211; by Mark Halperin &#8211; TIME<\/a> <\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/2008\/05\/03\/you-cant-make-this-up\/\">YOU CAN\u2019T MAKE THIS UP<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Hillary Clinton enthusiastically picked a filly named <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2008\/05\/hillarys-horse.html\"><strong>Eight Belles<\/strong><\/a> to win the Kentucky Derby and compared herself to the horse. Eight Belles finished second. The winner was the favorite, Big Brown. <\/p>\n<p>Eight Belles collapsed immediately after crossing the finish line, and was euthanized shortly thereafter.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/2008\/05\/03\/you-cant-make-this-up\/\">The Page &#8211; by Mark Halperin &#8211; TIME<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>PS: The slaughter of Eight Belles was tragic, especially so soon after Barbaro. This is a vicious &#8220;sport&#8221; akin to boxing or ultimate cage fighting. Sickening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reminds me of the piece on Saturday Night Live&#8217;s Weekend Update, in which Seth Meyers reported that Hillary compared herself to Rocky Balboa, who was &#8220;a washed up fighter ultimately beaten by the charismatic black guy. &#8220;peace, mjh The Page &#8211; by Mark Halperin &#8211; TIME YOU CAN\u2019T MAKE THIS UP Hillary Clinton enthusiastically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/watch-out-for-symbols-and-analogies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch Out for Symbols and Analogies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}