{"id":25349,"date":"2010-11-03T09:15:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=25349"},"modified":"2010-11-03T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:15:56","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-politics-and-the-national-rooster-crowing-contest-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-politics-and-the-national-rooster-crowing-contest-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Politics and the National Rooster Crowing Contest Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

When it comes to an award for crowing the loudest, that should go to politicians. If I get enraged by the money that movie stars make imagine how insane I go seeing the money that’s dumped into political ads on TV that tell us almost nothing about the actual goals of who made them. I don’t want to hear anyone crowing when they throw hundreds of millions of dollars away on campaigns. Do some real good and give that money to saving school systems or cities from going bankrupt. Neither Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina, the loudest crowers of all in the election yesterday, deserve any prize, which is exactly what they got for dumping all that cash down the drain. I don’t like to hear the other politicians crowing either, and I really don’t want to see any ads about ballot measures which, despite their cheesy production value,\u00a0cost a fortune to shoot and are never clear about what the measure is really about.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

At least with this rooster I have the option of winding him up to crow so I only hear him when I want to hear him…<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

…unlike all the politicians who drive me nuts constantly jabbering their text clouds of hyped-up nothingness on the airwaves.\u00a0So despite the fact that almost every candidate who ran or makers of almost every measure that made it on the ballot are well deserving of this\u00a0tin National Rooster Crowing Contest souvenir, I’m keeping it here. Because\u00a0I feel like a winner today now that all those stupid ads are off the air.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to an award for crowing the loudest, that should go to politicians. If I get enraged by the money that movie stars make imagine how insane I go seeing the money that’s dumped into political ads on TV that tell us almost nothing about the actual goals of who made them. I … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,67,87,193,585],"tags":[61,3232,3245,2209,2213,2211,2215,2217],"class_list":["post-25349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-awards","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-toy","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-national-rooster-crowing-contest","tag-oregon","tag-rouge-river","tag-tin-rooster","tag-tin-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}