{"id":170,"date":"2003-11-17T05:25:35","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/i_dont_think_america_is_ready\/"},"modified":"2003-11-17T05:25:35","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T10:25:35","slug":"i_dont_think_america_is_ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/i_dont_think_america_is_ready\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Think America Is Ready For My Candidacy, Either"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funny stuff<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly said he may take a look at running for president, according to a story in Newsday.
\nHe told the newspaper: “Certainly the option is open if I want it,” but “the country’s not interested in an independent candidacy. Maybe in 10 years they will be, but right now, you have 50 percent of Americans who don’t know anything — they’re totally disengaged from the process, the ‘Mall People.’ …The other 50 percent — and there was a recent poll on this — are a third crazy left and third crazy right and third in the middle. So the pie you’re going for is a very narrow pie.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what’s going to change in the next 10 years that hasn’t happened in the past 200?
\nTo top it all, there’s this:<\/p>\n

“I’m not a vanity player, I’m not gonna go out like Al Sharpton, to get on ‘Saturday Night Live’ to run for president, so unless I’m convinced I could pull it off, I wouldn’t do it,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

O’Reilly? A vanity player? Why would anyone think that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funny stuff: Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly said he may take a look at running for president, according to a story in Newsday. He told the newspaper: “Certainly the option is open if I want it,” but “the country’s not interested in an independent candidacy. Maybe in 10 years they will be, but right now, […]<\/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-170","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\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}