{"id":3203,"date":"2015-12-22T16:49:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2015-12-22T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T23:49:27","slug":"the-king-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3203","title":{"rendered":"THE KING DUMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the new Burger King Commercial?\u00a0 It involves the\u201d<strong>Burger King\u201d <\/strong>debating some corporate stiff from an unnamed competitor.\u00a0 The King brags about selling 10 chicken nuggets for $1.49.\u00a0 The corporate stiff can\u2019t think of a response so he just kind of sputters.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I watch this commercial I wonder who, exactly, is impressed with this ridiculous plastic King. He looks like a worn out cheap plastic manikin from a Christmas display left out doors at least one year past its prime.\u00a0 \u00a0Is anyone really impressed by this?\u00a0 At first I thought this was a caricature drummed up by the competition.\u00a0 Then I realized that somebody was paid big bucks for coming up with the <strong>\u201cBurger King.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To me, this commercial is a pretty accurate metaphor for the 2016 Presidential campaign.\u00a0 The King <strong>(\u201cHillary Clinton\u201d)<\/strong> is a soulless plastic figure, well past its prime, that no one could confuse with a real human being.\u00a0 It is hard to imagine anyone impressed by this.\u00a0 But then you check out the corporate stiff <strong>(\u201cThe Republican establishment\u201d)<\/strong> and you realize there are people capable of actually losing a debate to a Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>If we allow the RNC to choose the Republican nominee for President the election is likely to look a lot like this commercial.\u00a0 We will all be drowning our sorrow next fall wondering how the American people could be so stupid, again. The RNC will deserve its fate, but what about the country?<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the new Burger King Commercial?\u00a0 It involves the\u201dBurger King\u201d debating some corporate stiff from an unnamed competitor.\u00a0 The King brags about selling 10 chicken nuggets for $1.49.\u00a0 The corporate stiff can\u2019t think of a response so he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>THE KING DUMB - SCOTS HONOR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3203\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"THE KING DUMB - SCOTS HONOR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have you seen the new Burger King Commercial?\u00a0 It involves the\u201dBurger King\u201d debating some corporate stiff from an unnamed competitor.\u00a0 The King brags about selling 10 chicken nuggets for $1.49.\u00a0 The corporate stiff can\u2019t think of a response so he &hellip; 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