{"id":182797,"date":"2015-06-05T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/05\/journalistic-wank-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T22:21:00","slug":"journalistic-wank-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/05\/journalistic-wank-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalistic Wank of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do understand how it is necessary to investigate candidates, particularly Presidential candidates, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/06\/05\/marco-rubio-and-his-wife-cited-17-times-for-traffic-infractions-2\/\">a whole article on the traffic tickets of Marco and Jeanette Rubio<\/a> is an exercise of the highest wankitude:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senator Marco Rubio has been in a hurry to get to the top, rising from state legislator to United States senator in the span of a decade and now running for president at age 44.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But politics is not the only area where Mr. Rubio, a Republican from Florida, has an affinity for the fast track. He and his wife, Jeanette, have also shown a tendency to be in a rush on the road.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to a search of the Miami-Dade and Duval County court dockets, the Rubios have been cited for numerous infractions over the years for incidents that included speeding, driving through red lights and careless driving. A review of records dating back to 1997 shows that the couple had a combined 17 citations: Mr. Rubio with four and his wife with 13. On four separate occasions they agreed to attend remedial driving school after a violation.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Rubio\u2019s troubles behind the wheel predate his days in politics. In 1997, when he was cited for careless driving by a Florida Highway Patrol officer, he was fined and took voluntary driving classes. A dozen years later, in 2009, he was ticketed for speeding on a highway in Duval County and found himself back in driver improvement school.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Things got more complicated in 2011 when Mr. Rubio was alerted to the fact that his license was facing suspension after a traffic camera caught him failing to stop at a red light in his beige Buick. His lawyer, Alex Hanna, paid a $16 fee to delay the suspension and eventually it was dismissed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Marco has gotten a traffic ticket about once every 4 years, and his wife has gotten one about once every 1\u00bd years.<\/p>\n<p>This is news?  In the f%$#ing <i>New York Times<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Puhlease.<\/p>\n<p>The coverage of the 2016 campaign is going to be a horror show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do understand how it is necessary to investigate candidates, particularly Presidential candidates, but a whole article on the traffic tickets of Marco and Jeanette Rubio is an exercise of the highest wankitude: Senator Marco Rubio has been in a hurry to get to the top, rising from state legislator to United States senator in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182797"}],"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=182797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}