{"id":182206,"date":"2015-11-21T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/21\/this-is-not-the-onion\/"},"modified":"2015-11-21T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T00:05:00","slug":"this-is-not-the-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/21\/this-is-not-the-onion\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k3jt5ibfRzw\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>She Turned Me Into a Newt!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Former Republican nominee for US Senator Deleware, Christine O&#8217;Donnel, who in 2010 was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christine_O'Donnell#Witchcraft\">forced to kick of her campaign by declaring that she was not a witch<\/a>, is now  <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/christine-odonnell-fec-lawsuit-witch-hunt\">calling an FEC lawsuit over her campaign finance management a &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She needs to get this straight.  Is she a witch, or isn&#8217;t she?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O&#8217;Donnell said Friday that a Federal Election Commission lawsuit accusing her of improper campaign expenditures is a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; and a waste of taxpayer dollars.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">O&#8217;Donnell, who famously declared during the 2010 Senate race that she was not a witch, made the comment in a teleconference with the federal judge hearing the case.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">O&#8217;Donnell also said she is having trouble hiring a local attorney, claiming that at least three lawyers she has talked to have received phone calls warning of &#8220;political backlash&#8221; if they represent her. She declined to identify them or provide further details, noting that an Associated Press reporter was listening to the teleconference.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I know that my characterization is neither fair nor accurate, but seriously, this is just too good, and too weird, to pass up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She Turned Me Into a Newt! Former Republican nominee for US Senator Deleware, Christine O&#8217;Donnel, who in 2010 was forced to kick of her campaign by declaring that she was not a witch, is now calling an FEC lawsuit over her campaign finance management a &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221;. She needs to get this straight. Is she &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,972,978,1019,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-justice","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182206"}],"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=182206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}