{"id":4983,"date":"2010-10-29T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2010-10-29T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:55:18","slug":"reality-check-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/reality-check-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"271\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y_zTN4BXvYI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y_zTN4BXvYI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>My wife and I have stopped answering the phone due to a deluge of robocalls on behalf of various candidates. (Please stop ringing us up, <strong>President Obama<\/strong>, and that goes for &#8220;<strong>Jack<\/strong>&#8221; at <strong>American Crossroads<\/strong>, too. Hit the road.) The uncontrolled sewage overflow of TV spots, when compared to the miniscule number of undecided <strong>Nevada<\/strong> voters, must surely constitute the greatest inverse proportional ratio of all time. Besides, the pitches are geared to such a low level of cognitive ability that even a simpleton would be offended &#8230; although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/26\/americas-dumbest-city-annual-report-says-its-las-v\/\" target=\"_blank\">nobody&#8217;s accused us of being too smart for our own good lately<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a refreshing breath of historical perspective, an <em>S&amp;G<\/em> reader sent me this satirical video, depicting how the presidential election of 1800 might have played out if our <strong>Founding Fathers<\/strong> had access to TV and <strong>Madison Ave<\/strong>. It&#8217;s damn funny and reminds one that they don&#8217;t craft political rhetoric like they used to. So the next time somebody gets your goat, call them &#8220;nutmeg-faced.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I have stopped answering the phone due to a deluge of robocalls on behalf of various candidates. (Please stop ringing us up, President Obama, and that goes for &#8220;Jack&#8221; at American Crossroads, too. Hit the road.) The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/reality-check-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,140,53,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}