{"id":6424,"date":"2008-09-24T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T23:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2008-09-24T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:37:53","slug":"pakistani-president-to-palin-youre-gorgeous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6424","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani President to Palin: &#8216;You&#8217;re Gorgeous&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/PalinMeetsForeignLeaders_UN_092408.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Wondering what was discussed during those important, question-free, :30 second photo-ops embarrassingly created by the McCain campaign to display Sarah Palin &#8220;meeting&#8221; with foreign leaders at the UN, this week? <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/09\/24\/pakistans-president-tells-palin-she-is-gorgeous\/\">CNN offers some insight&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">On entering a room filled with several Pakistani officials this afternoon, Palin was immediately greeted by Sherry Rehman, the country&#8217;s Information Minister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And how does one keep looking that good when one is that busy?,&#8221; [Pakistani Information Minister Sherry] Rehman asked, drawing friendly laughter from the room when she complimented Palin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, thank you,&#8221; Palin said.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s recently-elected president, Asif Ali Zardari, entered the room seconds later. Palin rose to shake his hand, saying she was &#8220;honored&#8221;\u009d to meet him.<\/p>\n<p>Zardari then called her &#8220;gorgeous&#8221; and said: &#8220;Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are so nice,&#8221; Palin said, smiling. &#8220;Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A handler from Zardari&#8217;s entourage then told the two politicians to keep shaking hands for the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he&#8217;s insisting, I might hug,&#8221; Zardari said. Palin smiled politely.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska governor did not answer questions from reporters&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering what was discussed during those important, question-free, :30 second photo-ops embarrassingly created by the McCain campaign to display Sarah Palin &#8220;meeting&#8221; with foreign leaders at the UN, this week? CNN offers some insight&#8230; On entering a room filled with several Pakistani officials this afternoon, Palin was immediately greeted by Sherry Rehman, the country&#8217;s Information [&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,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,252,388],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-john-mccain","category-sarah-palin","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424","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=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}