{"id":176895,"date":"2020-02-24T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/24\/fredrick-samuel-hiatt-would-you-please-go-now\/"},"modified":"2020-02-24T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T01:05:00","slug":"fredrick-samuel-hiatt-would-you-please-go-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/24\/fredrick-samuel-hiatt-would-you-please-go-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Fredrick Samuel Hiatt, Would You Please Go Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/5HBUVJY.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/5HBUVJY.png\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Normally, I&#8217;d suggest that the most batsh%$ insane bit of punditry over the past week or so would be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1231406745282633728\">Chris Matthews likening Bernie Sanders&#8217; victory in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi defeat of France in 1940<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I&#8217;d be wrong, because <i>Washington Post<\/i> editorial editor Fred Hiatt just penned an article stating that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/how-donald-trump-and-bernie-sanders-both-reject-the-reality-of-climate-change\/2020\/02\/23\/cc657dcc-54de-11ea-9e47-59804be1dcfb_story.html\">Bernie Sanders is the real climate change denier because he isn&#8217;t listening to the opinions of oil company executives<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Unfortunately, there is no magic wand to make such things happen, as Patrick Pouyann\u00e9 told me last week. Pouyann\u00e9 is one of those people whose hatred Sanders might welcome; he is chairman and chief executive of Paris-based Total, one of the world\u2019s biggest oil and gas companies.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Dan Froomkin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/froomkin\/status\/1231761900800704512\">pithily notes<\/a>,(Cleaned up from a Twitter post) &#8220;The author of this piece, Fred Hiatt, runs the Washington Post\u2019s opinion side. And as I have long argued, he has done more damage to the Post brand than anyone since Janet Cooke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I&#8217;d suggest that the most batsh%$ insane bit of punditry over the past week or so would be Chris Matthews likening Bernie Sanders&#8217; victory in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi defeat of France in 1940. This week, I&#8217;d be wrong, because Washington Post editorial editor Fred Hiatt just penned an article stating that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[490,385,405,406,403],"class_list":["post-176895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hack-journalism","tag-media","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}