{"id":183471,"date":"2013-02-19T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/19\/when-charles-fing-krauthammer-is-the-voice-of-reason-you-have-jumped-the-shark\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T01:44:00","slug":"when-charles-fing-krauthammer-is-the-voice-of-reason-you-have-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/19\/when-charles-fing-krauthammer-is-the-voice-of-reason-you-have-jumped-the-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"When Charles F%$#ing Krauthammer is the Voice of Reason, You Have Jumped the Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><i>Jumping C. Megalodon<\/i><sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/73a3M.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/73a3M.png\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is one big shark that he jumped.<br \/>With Frikken Lasers!<\/div>\n<p>The White House press corps(e) is mad as hell and they are not going to take it any more.<\/p>\n<p>They have been stonewalled by the Obama administration for the last time?<\/p>\n<p>What was it?  The secret kill list?  The use of the CIA and the NSA to spy on US citizens?  The secret negotiations for the the Trans-Pacific Partnership?<\/p>\n<p>Nope.  The press is livid that they did not get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/02\/19\/white-house-defends-obama-tiger-woods-media-blackout\">press availability when Obama played a round of golf with Tiger Woods<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The White House pushed back Tuesday against complaints from the press corps that the administration was too restrictive last weekend in denying reporters and photographers a glimpse of President Obama playing golf with Tiger Woods during his vacation in Florida.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Press secretary Jay Carney said he sympathizes with the press corps\u2019 bid for greater access, but he disputed suggestions that Obama has been more off-limits than his recent predecessors.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Carney said Obama has held 35 news conferences in which reporters were permitted to ask questions, compared to 19 by George W. Bush to this point in his presidency. And Obama has granted 591 interviews, including 104 with television networks, Carney added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Later that afternoon, the White House confirmed that Woods was among Obama\u2019s foursome after a reporter for Golf World Magazine and the Golf Channel had published the news on his Twitter feed hours earlier.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">After several reporters, including Fox News correspondent Ed Henry, president of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association, complained about the lack of access, Obama spoke with reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday evening on the way back to Washington. But that conversation was off the record.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you know how stupid this is?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so stupid and over the top that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/02\/charles-krauthammer-why-the-outrage-87767.html\">lunatic and long distance psychotherapist Charles Krauthammer thinks that this is whiny inconsequential bullsh%$<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Charles Krauthammer is blasting the media for complaining about a lack of access to President Barack Obama over the weekend while he golfed with Tiger Woods, calling it \u201cthe biggest non-story\u201d since the Kardashian weddings.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIf the guy wants to play golf, the guy deserves a couple of days off. He wants privacy \u2014 big deal. This is the biggest non-story that the media have created since the Kardashian weddings,\u201d Krauthammer said on Fox News on Monday. \u201cI don\u2019t understand what the story is and what the outrage is.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, Charles Krauthammer is correct.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot f%$#ing believe that I f%$#ing just f%$#ing said f%$#ing that. <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">The largest shark, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Megaladon\">likely largest predator fish ever<\/a>.  It died out some 1.5 million years ago.  The Genus is still in dispute, between either Carcharodon (Great White) or Carcharocles (broad toothed Mako).  But in either case, you are jumping C. Megalodon, you have jumped the biggest shark ever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping C. Megalodon* This is one big shark that he jumped.With Frikken Lasers! The White House press corps(e) is mad as hell and they are not going to take it any more. They have been stonewalled by the Obama administration for the last time? What was it? The secret kill list? The use of 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":[1142,974,1064,1057,982,979,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-sports","category-stupid","category-wanker","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183471"}],"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=183471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}