{"id":1885,"date":"2008-08-28T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2015-10-18T20:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:09:22","slug":"kudos-to-john-mccain-ministry-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to the John McCain Ministry of Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been some talk in recent weeks about the website http:\/\/www.mccainpalin.com\/<\/a>, especially among those of us booming Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate. Today, it has in succession redirected to websites purporting to announce a McCain\/Pawlenty ticket<\/a>, a McCain\/Hutchison ticket<\/a>, and now a McCain\/Romney ticket<\/a>. Where it will go by the time you click on the link, I have no idea. Plus, there are other indications and rumors flying\u2014Tim Pawlenty has canceled appearances, the Secret Service is at Mitt Romney’s sister’s house, and so on\u2014all pointing different directions.I can only come to one conclusion: the McCain campaign is playing with our minds. Having watched Sen. Obama’s pick leak despite efforts to keep everything hush-hush, they’ve decided to go the other way and flood the arena with disinformation. There are so many red herrings flopping around out there right now, the only thing you’re going to accomplish if you dive in is to come up smelling fishy.I have no idea who Sen. McCain’s pick will be; I think the complete absence of any<\/em> pointers aiming at my favorite governor might be telling, but I’m by no means sure enough of that to say. I am sure of this, though: Sen. McCain said his pick is going to be a surprise, and by cracky, he wants to keep<\/em> it that way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been some talk in recent weeks about the website http:\/\/www.mccainpalin.com\/, especially among those of us booming Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate. Today, it has in succession redirected to websites purporting to announce a McCain\/Pawlenty ticket, a McCain\/Hutchison ticket, and now a McCain\/Romney ticket. Where it will go by the time you click […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104,63,72,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kudos","category-politics","category-sarah-palin","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6R3Ax-up","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1887,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1887","url_meta":{"origin":1885,"position":0},"title":"Will he do it?","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"28 August 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The interest in Sarah Palin continues to drive the traffic on this blog up and up and up, as the search hits keep rolling in; and it's not just me, either\u2014Adam Brickley's blog, which is the hub of the Palin movement, topped 5,000 hits both Monday and Tuesday (a fact\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=63"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1962,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1962","url_meta":{"origin":1885,"position":1},"title":"Further thought on Sarah Palin","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"20 July 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Chris Cilizza, in the Washington Post, broke down John McCain's VP options this way:McCain's choice is whether to throw a \"short pass\" or a \"Hail Mary.\"The short pass candidates are people that McCain is personally close to or would fit an obvious need for him. Choosing a \"short pass\" candidate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=63"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1896,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1896","url_meta":{"origin":1885,"position":2},"title":"Sarah Palin: hit magnet","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"25 August 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The biggest argument people offer against Sarah Palin as a potential running mate for John McCain is essentially that she's too obscure. Part of that is the \"Alaska's a 3-electoral-vote state that's going to vote Republican anyway\" thing (which I happen to think the Biden pick has neutralized, since Joe\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=63"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1858,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1858","url_meta":{"origin":1885,"position":3},"title":"Dick Morris hits it over the light tower","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"3 September 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cStand Behind Sarah Palin.\u201dSome claim [John McCain] made a mistake in choosing the Alaska governor. My bet is the reverse\u2014that she\u2019ll turn out to be a big win. . . .Understand: Palin is under attack because she was such a good choice. Remember the Democrats\u2019 central charge on McCain: \u201cHe\u2019s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=63"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1879,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1879","url_meta":{"origin":1885,"position":4},"title":"Is this really helpful, guys?","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"29 August 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The bloggers over at PowerLine are quite negative on the Palin pick. Paul Mirengoff wrote, \"I'm very disappointed that John McCain would put someone as inexperienced and lacking in foreign policy and national security background as Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency.\" Why, because Tim Pawlenty and Mitt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=63"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1881,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1881","url_meta":{"origin":1885,"position":5},"title":"YES!!!!!! MCCAIN\/PALIN ’08!","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"29 August 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"All right, I'm breaking my own self-imposed rule, but after all the hijinks played yesterday with http:\/\/www.mccainpalin.com\/, I'm calling this good enough: it's now firmly McCain-Palin 2008, declaring, \"The Wait Is Over\" and reads,It's Official!!! Congratulations Sarah Palin! We are pleased to announce that John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=63"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}