{"id":187191,"date":"2013-05-21T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/21\/this-could-very-well-be-the-stupidest-person-on-the-face-of-the-earth-perhaps-we-should-shoot-him\/"},"modified":"2013-05-21T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T00:11:00","slug":"this-could-very-well-be-the-stupidest-person-on-the-face-of-the-earth-perhaps-we-should-shoot-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/21\/this-could-very-well-be-the-stupidest-person-on-the-face-of-the-earth-perhaps-we-should-shoot-him\/","title":{"rendered":"This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P23urlg.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/>I am referring, of course, to former <i>New York Times<\/i> executive editor Bill Keller, who&#8217;s latest brainstorm is that <a href=\"http:\/\/keller.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/21\/bring-back-ken-starr\/\">Obama should appoint Kenneth Starr as a special prosecutor to investigate the latest ginned up faux scandals against the Obama administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Republicans are howling for President Obama to name a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service\u2019s targeting of Tea Party groups. The president should call their bluff.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The president should announce that he has told the Justice Department to appoint an independent investigator with bulldog instincts and bipartisan credibility. The list of candidates could start with Kenneth Starr, who chased down the scandals, real and imagined, of the Clinton presidency. It might include Patrick Fitzgerald, who was special counsel in the Valerie Plame affair, winning the conviction of Dick Cheney\u2019s chief of staff, and who has successfully prosecuted two corrupt governors of Illinois, one from each party.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is batsh%$ insane.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also ahistorical.  Ken Starr did not pursue any real scandals, that was done by his predecessor, Robert Fiske, who uncovered significant corruption in Arkansas.  Starr had no interest beyone his witch hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Starr????  This is beyond the wildest dreams of the writers for <i>The Onion<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot believe that anyone can be this obtuse.<\/p>\n<p>Neither can the people reading his post.&nbsp; The comments are nearly universally disparaging.<\/p>\n<p>The stupid, it burns us. <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">What, you&#8217;ve never seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091877\/\"><i>Ruthless People<\/i><\/a>?  Great movie.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring, of course, to former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, who&#8217;s latest brainstorm is that Obama should appoint Kenneth Starr as a special prosecutor to investigate the latest ginned up faux scandals against the Obama administration: Republicans are howling for President Obama to name a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,982,979,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-stupid","category-wanker","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187191"}],"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=187191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}