{"id":5170,"date":"2007-10-17T12:33:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T19:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2007-10-18T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T18:27:27","slug":"stephen-colbert-announces-2008-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5170","title":{"rendered":"VIDEOS: Stephen Colbert Announces 2008 Presidential Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a first announced last night on <em>The Daily Show<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><embed FlashVars='videoId=118625' src='http:\/\/www.indecision2008.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And then, later in the evening, in a bit more detail, on &#8220;a more prestigious show&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><embed FlashVars='videoId=118597' src='http:\/\/www.indecision2008.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Will he have more of an actual effect on the race than, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat_Paulson\">Pat Paulsen<\/a>, the inveterate comedian-candidate of many a prior Presidential contest? We wager Colbert just might, actually.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/17\/candidate-colbert\/\"><i>New York Times<\/i> has some details<\/a> and Colbert himself brought CBS&#8217;s Jeff Greenfield on for analysis of his impact on the race, &#8220;in the last three minutes,&#8221; as seen in the following video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><embed FlashVars='videoId=118598' src='http:\/\/www.indecision2008.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a first announced last night on The Daily Show&#8230; &#8230;And then, later in the evening, in a bit more detail, on &#8220;a more prestigious show&#8221;&#8230; Will he have more of an actual effect on the race than, say, Pat Paulsen, the inveterate comedian-candidate of many a prior Presidential contest? We wager Colbert just might, [&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":[122,308,248,205],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-jon-stewart","category-south-carolina","category-stephen-colbert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","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=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}