{"id":359,"date":"2004-07-30T14:05:15","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T18:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2004-07-30T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T18:05:15","slug":"tucker-gets-an-f-in-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Tucker gets an &#8216;F&#8217; in Math!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TuckerBook.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">CNN had been posting it&#8217;s &#8220;Pundits Scorecard&#8221; each night of the Convention to score the various keynote speakers. Last night, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/ELECTION\/2004\/special\/president\/convention\/dnc\/press.pundits\/archive\/index.073004.html\" target=\"_blank\">pundits were asked<\/a> &#8220;How would you rate the Democratic National Convention?&#8221; Here&#8217;s how Tucker Carlson scored it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers: B+<br \/>\nThemes\/Message:  A<br \/>\nKerry&#8217;s Speech: B+<br \/>\n<b>OVERALL:  C-<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;Average together the B+, A and B+ and come out with a C-! Got it!<\/p>\n<p>(Was Tucker the one responsible for coming up with <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/03\/17\/medicare.investigation\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the bad numbers for Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Prescription Drug Plan&#8221;<\/a> by the way? Or the figures for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views04\/0507-04.htm\" target=\"_blank\">how much Iraq Reconstruction <i>wouldn&#8217;t<\/i> cost<\/a> the American people? I&#8217;m noticing a theme amongst the GOP. Perhaps all Bush Admin Officials should be forced to take the Math Section of their &#8220;No Child Left Behind&#8221; standardized test! Or at least explain how they can <i>possibly<\/i> paint the <i>Democrats<\/i> as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3540721\/\" target=\"_blank\">the party of big spenders<\/a>!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN had been posting it&#8217;s &#8220;Pundits Scorecard&#8221; each night of the Convention to score the various keynote speakers. Last night, the pundits were asked &#8220;How would you rate the Democratic National Convention?&#8221; Here&#8217;s how Tucker Carlson scored it&#8230; Speakers: B+ Themes\/Message: A Kerry&#8217;s Speech: B+ OVERALL: C- Hmmm&#8230;Average together the B+, A and B+ and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}