{"id":1351,"date":"2009-11-25T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/25\/is-dede-getting-the-last-laugh\/"},"modified":"2009-11-25T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:38:00","slug":"is-dede-getting-the-last-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/25\/is-dede-getting-the-last-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Dede getting the last laugh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the NY-23 race, Conservative Doug Hoffman was the media darling, gobbling up huge amounts of free air time from right-wing radio and TV outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative web and print operations backed him as well.<\/p>\n<p>But in the weeks since the election, Scozzafava has emerged as a regular voice in the national media, featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1109\/29443.html\">Politico<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmht.org\/index.php?s=1&amp;b=10&amp;p=34\">New York Now<\/a>, and coming up this weekend on CBS&#8217;s program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/1109\/Dede_faces_the_nation.html\">Face the Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scozzafava&#8217;s perspective retains a profound relevance as <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/25\/another-take-on-the-gop-purity-test\/\">Republicans consider a &#8220;purity&#8221; test<\/a> for future candidates that would require them to sign-off on conservative values before winning GOP support.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative activists have also threatened to &#8220;scozzafava&#8221; other moderate Republicans in New York and around the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the NY-23 race, Conservative Doug Hoffman was the media darling, gobbling up huge amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}