{"id":3467,"date":"2011-11-23T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2012-01-10T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T22:08:36","slug":"affordable-north-conway-outlets-get-shout-out-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/11\/23\/affordable-north-conway-outlets-get-shout-out-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Affordable&#8221; North Conway Outlets Get Shout-Out On SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3470\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Jon Huntsman took a brief respite from campaigning in New Hampshire to go on SNL\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/6127027621_2bd8640ab6.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3470\" title=\"Jon Huntsman in Manchester\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/6127027621_2bd8640ab6-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/6127027621_2bd8640ab6-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/6127027621_2bd8640ab6-220x157.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/6127027621_2bd8640ab6.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Josh Rogers \/ NHPR<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Huntsman took a brief respite from campaigning in New Hampshire to go on SNL<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In all likelihood, most of you aren&#8217;t visiting StateImpact for our primary coverage. \u00a0Yes, we completely agree that the Republican primary is a Very Big Deal. \u00a0But most people don&#8217;t go to business news sites to get nitty-gritty political coverage, either. \u00a0So we try to keep political stories strictly focused on New Hampshire&#8217;s business and economic environment. \u00a0They have to be <em>specific <\/em>to the situation here. \u00a0Every time a politician talks about business in New Hampshire, we don&#8217;t automatically post it.<\/p>\n<p>But today is the day before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already taken the day off, we wouldn&#8217;t blame you if you wanted to check out from the daily grind for a couple of minutes. \u00a0In fact, we&#8217;ll aid and abet that one.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last night, NHPR&#8217;s political reporter Josh Rogers <a title=\"Huntsman Puts It All On NH\" href=\"http:\/\/nhpr.org\/post\/huntsman-puts-it-all-nh\" target=\"_blank\">filed a long piece about former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman betting double-or-nothing on New Hampshire for the Republican nomination<\/a>. Rogers noted a couple of stops the candidate made at a pair of factories and talked about the need to bring more manufacturing jobs back to this country.<\/p>\n<p>That was good.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s great (especially for the day before a major holiday) is brain candy.<\/p>\n<p>In his report, Rogers references an appearance Huntsman made on Saturday Night Live, lamp-shading his all-in approach to New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>On the show, Huntsman makes a glowing reference to, &#8220;the affordable outlet malls of North Conway, New Hampshire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re calling that a retail story.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ve got the video right here:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"512\" height=\"288\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/aol\/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulu.com%2Fwatch%2F302532%2Fsaturday-night-live-weekend-update-gov-jon-huntsman\/embed\/T3QSq0SeJ9i__yJOqc83BQ\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"512\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/aol\/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulu.com%2Fwatch%2F302532%2Fsaturday-night-live-weekend-update-gov-jon-huntsman\/embed\/T3QSq0SeJ9i__yJOqc83BQ\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all likelihood, most of you aren&#8217;t visiting StateImpact for our primary coverage. \u00a0Yes, we completely agree that the Republican primary is a Very Big Deal. \u00a0But most people don&#8217;t go to business news sites to get nitty-gritty political coverage, either. \u00a0So we try to keep political stories strictly focused on New Hampshire&#8217;s business and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[227,501,514],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}