{"id":188697,"date":"2010-08-10T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/10\/ted-stephens-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T00:41:00","slug":"ted-stephens-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/10\/ted-stephens-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Stephens is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He died in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-10\/former-senator-ted-stevens-was-aboard-alaska-plane-involved-in-fatal-crash.html\">small plane crash in Alaska<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was an SOB, and he reveled in it, though I think that he would argue that he was Alaska&#8217;s SOB.<\/p>\n<p>My take on his career is that he was not a benefit to the United States, and at best mixed for Alaska, which he was largely responsible for making into a corrupt petro-state.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, I agree with Zachary Roth, that it is far too likely that we will see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/campaign_desk\/the_senator_in_full.php\">a full blown hagiography which ignores the fact that he was actually very corrupt<\/a>, deriving significant personal benefit from his position, whether or not the government could have successfully retried him after he won a dismissal on prosecutorial misconduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He died in a small plane crash in Alaska. He was an SOB, and he reveled in it, though I think that he would argue that he was Alaska&#8217;s SOB. My take on his career is that he was not a benefit to the United States, and at best mixed for Alaska, which he was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188697"}],"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=188697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}