{"id":187229,"date":"2013-05-08T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/08\/funny-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T02:54:00","slug":"funny-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/08\/funny-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Chait, of all people, comments on the Hobson&#8217;s choice for Virginia Governor between batsh%$ insane wingnut Ken Cuccinelli and poster child for money driven soulless hack Terry McAuliffe, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/05\/mcauliffe-cucinelli-not-grimmest-choice-ever.html\">makes a pretty good funny<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The most depressing election in America is unfolding in Virginia, where voters will trudge to the polls this fall to choose either Republican nutjob Ken Cuccinelli or soulless Democratic hack Terry McAuliffe as their next governor. We know why Republicans picked Cuccinelli \u2014 he\u2019s crazy, they\u2019re crazy, it\u2019s the sort of perfect match that regularly produces nominees like Todd \u201clegitimate rape\u201d Akin and Richard Mourdock.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Just how McAuliffe managed to clear the field is harder to explain. McAuliffe is a House of Cards character, only less articulate. Unlike most soulless hacks, he did not obtain his position through years of greasy pole climbing \u2014 he\u2019s a novice in electoral politics whose only real power base is Beltway insiders. McAuliffe is the Democrat Democrats have been dying to vote against, except they can\u2019t, because he\u2019s running against a falling-off-the-right-edge-of-the-map Republican. (It\u2019s a testament to McAuliffe\u2019s visceral loathsomeness that he\u2019s starting off with a ten-point deficit against Crazy Ken Cuccinelli, in a state Barack Obama won twice.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then goes to list 5 worse choices.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t spoil it, I&#8217;ll just tell you number 5 on his list:  Godzilla vs. Mothra.<\/p>\n<p>Just read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Chait, of all people, comments on the Hobson&#8217;s choice for Virginia Governor between batsh%$ insane wingnut Ken Cuccinelli and poster child for money driven soulless hack Terry McAuliffe, and he makes a pretty good funny: The most depressing election in America is unfolding in Virginia, where voters will trudge to the polls this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1100,1002,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187229"}],"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=187229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}