{"id":2876,"date":"2004-10-13T03:12:43","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T17:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/kill-switchclick\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:31:34","slug":"kill-switchclick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/13\/kill-switchclick\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill Switch&#8230;Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>Y&#8217;know what I&#8217;d like to see in tonight&#8217;s debate? I&#8217;d love it if the moderator had a &#8220;kill switch&#8221; for the candidate&#8217;s microphones, so if Bush tried to railroad a statement through (as he did in the last debate), the moderator could just turn him off.<\/p>\n<p>Considering how he flew off the handle last time when the moderator was already planning on letting him have rebuttal time, can you imagine how furious he&#8217;d get if he was actually penalized for breaking the rules of the debate? I&#8217;d bet we&#8217;d see a real Presidential-quality tempertantrum if that happened. Heck, I&#8217;d pay good money to see that happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know what I&#8217;d like to see in tonight&#8217;s debate? I&#8217;d love it if the moderator had a &#8216;kill switch&#8217; for the candidate&#8217;s microphones, so if Bush tried to railroad a statement through, the moderator could just turn him off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}