{"id":183643,"date":"2013-01-04T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/04\/thats-gonna-leave-a-mark-3\/"},"modified":"2013-01-04T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T00:45:00","slug":"thats-gonna-leave-a-mark-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/04\/thats-gonna-leave-a-mark-3\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Gonna Leave a Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the &#8220;journalists&#8221; at Fox News asked a really stupid question alleging that Hillary Clinton was faking being sick to avoid testifying before Congress, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2013\/01\/02\/fox-news-producer-was-scolded-by-state-department\/\">State Department spokesman Phillippe Raines &#8220;apologized&#8221; for this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cToria, can you expand on why Secretary Clinton can\u2019t testify on Thursday about this? It seems that she has not been available to testify on the Benghazi situation on some very key dates, including the Sunday after 9\/11 and now this Thursday.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">I just called them and read them the riot act for putting such misleading, accusatory, and absolutely asinine words in your mouth. Because after what we and her doctors explained over the weekend regarding her health, you couldn\u2019t possibly have been insinuating the ulterior motives that question implies. No way. No credible journalist would do that without any basis whatsoever. But even more so, I really went to bat for you with folks here and told them that while I know the media can often be incredibly self-involved, there is no way you, an informed reporter, would equate one\u2019s testifying before the United States Congress \u2013 made up of duly elected Senators and Representatives empowered by Article I of our Constitution \u2013 with going on tv. I don\u2019t know Chris Wallace all that well, but I\u2019m pretty sure he wouldn\u2019t place his television show on par with one of the three branches of our government. And therefore, saying that this has happened on multiple \u2018key dates\u2019 is simply a blatant lie and grossly misleading to the public.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Anyway, our sincere apologies. If you send us what you really said, I\u2019ll make sure it\u2019s properly reflected.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the &#8220;journalists&#8221; at Fox News asked a really stupid question alleging that Hillary Clinton was faking being sick to avoid testifying before Congress, and State Department spokesman Phillippe Raines &#8220;apologized&#8221; for this: \u201cToria, can you expand on why Secretary Clinton can\u2019t testify on Thursday about this? It seems that she has not been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,964,1002,974,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-foreign-relations","category-good-writing","category-hack-journalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183643"}],"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=183643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}