{"id":183823,"date":"2012-11-08T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/08\/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall\/"},"modified":"2012-11-08T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T01:09:00","slug":"oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/08\/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh to Be a Fly on the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would love to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1112\/83534.html\">dial into this conference call<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Karl Rove\u2019s Crossroads outfit is holding a phone call for its big donors Thursday to sum up the race, said Stan Hubbard, a Minnesota media mogul and mega-donor. \u201cObviously, somebody made a mistake and didn\u2019t do things right. There\u2019s no question about that,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One would assume that at least a couple of these billionaires are not complete drooling morons, and they might be aware that any number of people have started to notice that Karl Rove, and the rest of the Republican &#8220;consultants&#8221; have more in common with bunko artists than they do with actual political operators.&nbsp; (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebaffler.com\/past\/the_long_con\/print\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/02\/karl-roves-mission-accomplished\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2012\/11\/scam-pacs-and-scam-polls.html\">here<\/a><span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\"><\/a><span><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>I have the feeling that they will <b>not<\/b> be pleased with their return on investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would love to dial into this conference call: Karl Rove\u2019s Crossroads outfit is holding a phone call for its big donors Thursday to sum up the race, said Stan Hubbard, a Minnesota media mogul and mega-donor. \u201cObviously, somebody made a mistake and didn\u2019t do things right. There\u2019s no question about that,\u201d he said. One &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,978,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183823"}],"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=183823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}