{"id":1182,"date":"2004-10-01T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/spin_central\/"},"modified":"2004-10-01T11:19:46","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T15:19:46","slug":"spin_central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/spin_central\/","title":{"rendered":"Spin Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days cranking out the media spin is an important post-debate campaign operation.<br \/>\nJack Pine Savage <a title=\"Curly Tales of War Pigs: post debate\" href=\"http:\/\/jackpinesavage.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/post-debate.html\">phoned into a GOP spin &#8220;conference call&#8221;<\/a> last night and noted that one of the distributed talking points was that Kerry &#8220;started with a credibility gap and ended with a credibility canyon.&#8221;  I&#8217;ll buy that; I heard one GOP spinner use this exact phrase and a couple others talk of Kerry&#8217;s &#8220;credibility gap.&#8221;<br \/>\nI understand that spin is spin, but come on&#8211;credibility gap?  Isn&#8217;t appearing as if you know what you are talking about an important element of credibility.  One of the candidates clearly did better than on this score than the other.  And it wasn&#8217;t Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/spin_central\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Spin Central\"><p>These days cranking out the media spin is an important post-debate campaign operation. Jack Pine Savage phoned into a GOP spin &#8220;conference call&#8221; last night and noted that one of the distributed talking points was that Kerry &#8220;started with a credibility gap and ended with a credibility canyon.&#8221; I&#8217;ll buy that; I heard one GOP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}