{"id":4073,"date":"2010-09-29T15:40:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2010-09-29T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:25:15","slug":"if-a-political-debate-happens-in-a-forest-and-no-one-bothers-to-pay-attention-does-it-make-a-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"If a political debate happens in a forest, and no one bothers to pay attention, does it make a sound? UPDATE,"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"If%20a%20political%20debate%20happens%20in%20a%20forest%2C%20and%20no%20one%20bothers%20to%20pay%20attention%2C%20does%20it%20make%20a%20sound%3F%20UPDATE%2C%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>OK, it wasn&#8217;t a forest&#8230; but it might as well have been. Did anyone else know the two California\u00a0Gubernatorial\u00a0candidates were going to have a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Election-2010\/Governors\/2010\/0929\/Debate-Jerry-Brown-Meg-Whitman-show-style-but-light-on-solutions\">debate last night<\/a> at UC Davis???<\/p>\n<p>Me neither!<\/p>\n<p>I drive\u00a0around\u00a0a lot and listen to my fair share of talk radio. I didn&#8217;t hear any promotion of it before the event, and I haven&#8217;t seen any headlines about it afterward. It&#8217;s not on MSNBC&#8217;s website. I don&#8217;t see it on Drudge. Instapundit hasn&#8217;t mentioned it, nor has Althouse, or Sully. Even Gay Patriot is a no-show. I had to google it to find any reports of it at all.<\/p>\n<p>Come On People!<\/p>\n<p>We are the most\u00a0populous\u00a0state \u00a0in the union&#8230;. <strong><em>WE&#8217;RE FREAKING CALIFORNIA<\/em><\/strong>!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Are we so screwed up that no one even cares anymore?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0OK, \u00a0the debate didn&#8217;t generate any interest at all&#8230; \u00a0But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/09\/29\/meg-whitmans-former-housekeeper-going-public-with-charges\/\">this will<\/a>! And the disgruntled housekeeper is being represented by media whore Gloria Allred. \u00a0Has she ever actually won a case? There&#8217;s the Scott Peterson thing, but, come on, even I could have won that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"If%20a%20political%20debate%20happens%20in%20a%20forest%2C%20and%20no%20one%20bothers%20to%20pay%20attention%2C%20does%20it%20make%20a%20sound%3F%20UPDATE%2C%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>OK, it wasn&#8217;t a forest&#8230; but it might as well have been. Did anyone else know the two California\u00a0Gubernatorial\u00a0candidates were going to have a\u00a0debate last night at UC Davis??? Me neither! I drive\u00a0around\u00a0a lot and listen to my fair share of talk radio. I didn&#8217;t hear any promotion of it before the event, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}