{"id":12442,"date":"2015-04-28T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12442"},"modified":"2015-04-28T08:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T12:18:59","slug":"the-road-to-the-presidency-requires-stops-at-late-night-talk-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-road-to-the-presidency-requires-stops-at-late-night-talk-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road To The Presidency Requires Stops At Late Night Talk Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/042815_1208_TheRoadToTh1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Begley wrote about the role that late night talk shows play in helping candidates run for President:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk shows can help redeem a candidate in trouble. In 1988, after a speech by Bill Clinton fell flat, he appeared on the <em>The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson <\/em>with a saxophone. It rehabilitated his image and made people forget about the speech.<\/li>\n<li>Talk shows can be a barometer of the political mood. In 2008 Obama was the target of jokes when his poll numbers were down. Then McCain called the economy fundamentally sound during a period of crisis. The comedians had a new target to aim jokes at the polls swung.<\/li>\n<li>If a candidate doesn&#8217;t have a narrative around them, then talk show hosts will create one with their jokes. It&#8217;s better then to show up at a talk show and help guide the narrative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3829755\/late-night-politics\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3829755\/late-night-politics\/\">Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Begley wrote about the role that late night talk shows play in helping candidates run for President: Talk shows can help redeem a candidate in trouble. In 1988, after a speech by Bill Clinton fell flat, he appeared on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson with a saxophone. It rehabilitated his image and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/042815_1208_TheRoadToTh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12445,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions\/12445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}