{"id":180873,"date":"2016-12-06T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/06\/this-is-the-stupidest-thing-written-on-us-politics-this-year\/"},"modified":"2016-12-06T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:03:00","slug":"this-is-the-stupidest-thing-written-on-us-politics-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/06\/this-is-the-stupidest-thing-written-on-us-politics-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Stupidest Thing Written on US Politics This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Yes, I am aware that this is a very high bar to clear, but there is no competition here, Carol Felsenthal, writing for Chicago<\/i> magazine, has made the most mind bogglingly moronic political analysis of this political season.<\/p>\n

Baldrick would say that, “It’s so cunning that you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.”<\/p>\n

Blackadder would say, “Your brain for example- is brain’s so minute \u2026\u2026\u2026 that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open, there wouldn’t be enough to cover a small water biscuit.”<\/p>\n

Ms Felsenthal says that Rahm Emanuel should be made head of the DNC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not that he asked me, but here\u2019s some advice for Rahm Emanuel: Run for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.<\/span>

<\/span> The new DNC chairman will be elected when all 447 members meet on February 24, but the auditions are on right now.<\/span>

<\/span> Get in the mix. Get out of Dodge. Leave behind the burden of running a city tortured by homicides that this year top 700 with a month to go. Leave behind the stubborn unpopularity with African Americans who make up one third of the city\u2019s population. (Even before Laquan McDonald became a household name in Chicago, Rahm\u2019s support among African Americans was eight percent.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>When I first read this, I thought that it was a joke.<\/p>\n

I could not believe that anyone was that profoundly and deeply stupid.<\/p>\n

If you read the comments, this opinion is nearly universally shared, with such comments as, “Why not Zoidberg?”<\/p>\n

The article is garbage, but the comments are amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I am aware that this is a very high bar to clear, but there is no competition here, Carol Felsenthal, writing for Chicago magazine, has made the most mind bogglingly moronic political analysis of this political season. Baldrick would say that, “It’s so cunning that you could put a tail on it and call …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[804,825,887,799,875,816,824],"class_list":["post-180873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hypocrisy","tag-incompetence","tag-insane","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180873"}],"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=180873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}