{"id":327473,"date":"2010-02-16T15:01:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76712"},"modified":"2010-02-16T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T20:01:49","slug":"tamyra-d%e2%80%99ippolito-a-look-back-in-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/327473","title":{"rendered":"Tamyra D\u2019Ippolito: A Look Back in Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76678\/dippolito-falls-flat#more-76678\">implosion<\/a> of would-be Democratic candidate Tamyra D&#8217;Ippolito in Indiana looks, in retrospect, totally unsurprising. But there were a solid 20 or 21 hours when this &#8230; passionate cafe owner had some liberals and conservatives convinced that she had a chance of making it onto the ballot to run for Sen. Evan Bayh&#8217;s (D-Ind.) open seat.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, the fact that she made time for every media outlet and reporter that called her &#8212; when she was ostensibly facing down a hard deadline that could make or break her career &#8212; should have tipped people off to her unseriousness. But it didn&#8217;t. And this interview with Fox and Friends may be the best memento of her unexamined, un-fact-checked insta-celebrity. Best moment: When Steve Doocey asks why she wants to represent &#8220;Ohio.&#8221;<span id=\"more-76712\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/inuvSJdI8vU\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/inuvSJdI8vU\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implosion of would-be Democratic candidate Tamyra D&#8217;Ippolito in Indiana looks, in retrospect, totally unsurprising. But there were a solid 20 or 21 hours when this &#8230; passionate cafe owner had some liberals and conservatives convinced that she had a chance of making it onto the ballot to run for Sen. Evan Bayh&#8217;s (D-Ind.) open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}