{"id":179079,"date":"2018-05-23T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/23\/read-this\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:51:00","slug":"read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/23\/read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The editors are at <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> are sadists, so they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/features\/john-mccain-hbo-documentary-w520596\">assigned Matt Taibbi to do a review of the new HBO hagiography of Senator John Sidney McCain III&#8217;s life<\/a>, and he is brilliant and savage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I hope my editors boil in oil in the afterlife for asking me to review <i>John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls, <\/i>the  new HBO doc that premieres Memorial Day and stars David Brooks, Henry  Kissinger, George W. Bush and a succession of other wax-museum escapees  who line up to evade and prevaricate about things McCain-related and  not.<\/p>\n<p>The review copy might as well have been titled, <i>Go Ahead, Say Something Bad About a Terminal Cancer Patient<\/i>. I felt like a monster 20 seconds in.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is a beautiful take-down, with quotes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">So McCain brought in Sarah Palin, who was a hell of a change, all right, with the IQ of a cheese-wheel \u2013 she made Dan Quayle sound like Spinoza. McCain&#8217;s campaign was cooked from that moment, because as the months passed, he couldn&#8217;t conceal his growing contempt for his own decision, leading to a fracture within the party that has persisted to this day.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This review is a thing of beauty, and you need to read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editors are at Rolling Stone are sadists, so they assigned Matt Taibbi to do a review of the new HBO hagiography of Senator John Sidney McCain III&#8217;s life, and he is brilliant and savage: I hope my editors boil in oil in the afterlife for asking me to review John McCain: For Whom the &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":[464,389,540,496],"class_list":["post-179079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-history","tag-john-sidney-mccain-iii","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179079"}],"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=179079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}