{"id":189341,"date":"2010-04-15T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/15\/a-corollary-to-saroffs-rule\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T13:53:00","slug":"a-corollary-to-saroffs-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/15\/a-corollary-to-saroffs-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"A Corollary to Saroff&#8217;s Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 396px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object id=\"msnbc6cd6d0\" class codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\" height=\"231\" width=\"396\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=36522064&amp;width=396&amp;height=231\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><embed name=\"msnbc6cd6d0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" flashvars=\"launch=36522064&amp;width=396&amp;height=231\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" height=\"231\" width=\"396\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sex, Lies, and Videotape?<\/span><\/div>\n<p>You know Saroff&#8217;s Rule:<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">If a financial transaction is complex enough to require that a news organization use a cartoon to explain it, its purpose is to deceive<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, now I have to come up with a corollary for puppet shows, because the always entertaining Dylan Ratigan has added this to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>[<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">on edit<\/span>]If anyone can give me suggestions, it would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of like School House Rock, on a bad acid trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex, Lies, and Videotape? You know Saroff&#8217;s Rule: If a financial transaction is complex enough to require that a news organization use a cartoon to explain it, its purpose is to deceive. Well, now I have to come up with a corollary for puppet shows, because the always entertaining Dylan Ratigan has added this to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,978,1073,1027,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-politics","category-saroffs-rule","category-video","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189341"}],"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=189341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}