{"id":182146,"date":"2015-12-08T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/08\/that-is-going-to-leave-a-mark\/"},"modified":"2015-12-08T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T01:49:00","slug":"that-is-going-to-leave-a-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/08\/that-is-going-to-leave-a-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"That is Going to Leave a Mark\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tervor Noah had a very special guest on <i>The Daily Show<\/i> last night, Jon Stewart:<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been obstructing a bill to pay for the health coverage for the first responders at the Twin Towers because he wants to hold it hostage to a change in oil export policy.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart came out of retirement, and appeared as a guest.<\/p>\n<p>He also went down to Congress to harangue what were clearly uncomfortable Senators and Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the whole thing, particularly the round table toward the end.<\/p>\n<p>It sucks to be Mitch McConnell on even the best of days, this makes it suck even more.<\/p>\n<p>Because Comedy Central vids autoplay on some platforms, I have put the video after the break<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" autostart=\"false\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:6abe4860-c195-492e-8ff3-3353c91f9fc8&amp;autoStart=false\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tervor Noah had a very special guest on The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been obstructing a bill to pay for the health coverage for the first responders at the Twin Towers because he wants to hold it hostage to a change in oil export policy. Jon Stewart &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,969,1002,1046,1020,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-healthcare","category-legislation","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182146"}],"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=182146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}