{"id":185916,"date":"2014-07-15T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/15\/charlie-pierce-on-a-rant-is-a-thing-of-beauty\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T01:39:00","slug":"charlie-pierce-on-a-rant-is-a-thing-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/15\/charlie-pierce-on-a-rant-is-a-thing-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Pierce on a Rant is a Thing of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a post entitled, &#8220;Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Mainline Antifreeze, Part The Infinity,&#8221; he takes on  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/Politico_Dances_With_The_Devils\"><i>Politico<\/i>&#8216;s hosting a fete of, and then writing a fawning article about Papa Dick and Baby Dick Cheney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Its puerilty has finally crossed over into indecency. Its triviality  has finally crossed over into obscenity. The comical political  starfcking that is its primary <i>raison d&#8217;erp<\/i> has finally crossed over into $10 meth-whoring on the Singapore docks. Once a mere surface irritation, <i>Tiger Beat On The Potomac<\/i>  has finally crossed over into being a thickly pustulating chancre on  the craft of journalism. It has demonstrated its essential  worthlessness. It has demonstrated that it has the moral character of a  sea-slug and the professional conscience of the <i>Treponema pallidum <\/i>spirochete.  Trust me. Stephen Glass never sunk this low. Mike (Payola) Allen has  accomplished the impossible. He&#8217;s made Jayson Blair look like Ernie  Pyle.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It goes on, and most of it near the perfection of, &#8220;<i>He&#8217;s made Jayson Blair look like Ernie  Pyle.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of it, and then someone <b>please<\/b> nominate Mr. Pierce for a Pulitzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post entitled, &#8220;Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Mainline Antifreeze, Part The Infinity,&#8221; he takes on Politico&#8216;s hosting a fete of, and then writing a fawning article about Papa Dick and Baby Dick Cheney: Its puerilty has finally crossed over into indecency. Its triviality has finally crossed over into obscenity. 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":[1203,969,1002,974,1129,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dick-cheney","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-hack-journalism","category-journalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185916"}],"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=185916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}