{"id":2494,"date":"2008-03-24T08:32:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T16:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2008-03-24T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T16:46:25","slug":"is-mccain-fit-to-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/03\/24\/is-mccain-fit-to-be-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Is McCain Fit to Be President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-032408_2\/2008_03_24_bohlert.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-032408_2\/2008_03_24_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/mccain.jpg\" alt=\"McCain\" \/><em>GUEST: Eric Bohlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Britain, presidential hopeful John McCain claimed he \u201cmisspoke,\u201d when he made comments about Al Qaeda training in Iran. Addressing the repeated statements made last week in Amman, Jordan, the senator said, \u201cJust as Senator Obama said he was looking forward to meeting the president of Canada, we all misspeak from time to time.\u201d Senator Joseph Lieberman stepped in to correct his fellow senator at the press conference in question after the second time McCain claimed Iran was training al-Qaeda within its borders. Iranians are majority Shia, while Al Qaeda is a Sunni organization. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee then went on to say, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.\u201d However, McCain, who prides himself on his foreign policy experience, made similar assertions without corrections just a day before the March 18th Jordanian press conference. During an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, the Arizona senator made the same claim. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\">www.mediamatters.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Eric Bohlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters Speaking to journalists in Britain, presidential hopeful John McCain claimed he \u201cmisspoke,\u201d when he made comments about Al Qaeda training in Iran. Addressing the repeated statements made last week in Amman, Jordan, the senator said, \u201cJust as Senator Obama said he was looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}