{"id":189118,"date":"2010-05-19T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/19\/first-you-say-something-stupid-then-you-lie-about-it-but-its-on-video\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:40:00","slug":"first-you-say-something-stupid-then-you-lie-about-it-but-its-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/19\/first-you-say-something-stupid-then-you-lie-about-it-but-its-on-video\/","title":{"rendered":"First, You Say Something Stupid, Then You Lie About It, but It’s On Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/embed><\/object>There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.*<\/sup><\/span><\/div>\n

No, not Blumenthal, he fessed up in the back-handed way that pols do.<\/p>\n

I mean Sue Lowden, who is a Republican running for US Senate against Harry Reid in Nevada.<\/p>\n

First, she suggests that people should barter chickens for medical care<\/a>, and does not have the good sense to say she meant, “Bargain,” and now she is denying that she ever said this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The problem is that she has been caught on video repeatedly<\/span> making just such a statement, so let’s roll tape, specifically the inestimable Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\n

The first rule is that when you are in a hole, stop digging<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The former anchor woman turned politico brings to mind the immortal Don Henley lyric, “We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond who Comes on at five, She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam In her eye.”<\/p>\n

In any case, she may be Harry Reid’s electoral salvation.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Virtual Kewpie doll for whoever picks the reference for the caption.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.* No, not Blumenthal, he fessed up in the back-handed way that pols do. I mean Sue Lowden, who is a Republican running for US Senate against Harry Reid in Nevada. First, she suggests that people should …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1198,1051,982,1027,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-health","category-hypocrisy","category-stupid","category-video","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189118"}],"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=189118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}