{"id":187501,"date":"2011-06-09T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/09\/this-is-going-to-be-an-amusing-campaign-season\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T00:04:00","slug":"this-is-going-to-be-an-amusing-campaign-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/09\/this-is-going-to-be-an-amusing-campaign-season\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Going to be an Amusing Campaign Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the train wreck that is Newt Gingrich, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0611\/56631.html\">his entire campaign staff resigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proximate cause was his decision to go on a cruise ship vacation while everyone else in the race is hitting places like Iowa and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that this is all just a variation of his &#8220;Gingrich, Inc.&#8221; scam which Rachel Maddow had detailed, and he&#8217;s doing this because his little money making operation pretty much demands that he eventually run.<\/p>\n<p>It raises a kind of a meta-media question:  The standard narrative for the Washington Press <strike>whores<\/strike> corps about Gingrich is that he an intellectual colossus of the conservative movement, a meme which the beltway bozos continue to push, but we are seeing increasing evidence that he&#8217;s just a self serving clown.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I find the clown show, and the contortions of his fans in the media, an amusing show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the train wreck that is Newt Gingrich, his entire campaign staff resigned. The proximate cause was his decision to go on a cruise ship vacation while everyone else in the race is hitting places like Iowa and New Hampshire. I&#8217;m beginning to think that this is all just a variation of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187501"}],"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=187501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}