{"id":190003,"date":"2010-01-16T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/16\/quote-of-the-day-253\/"},"modified":"2010-01-16T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T01:57:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/16\/quote-of-the-day-253\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/correspondents.theatlantic.com\/james_warren\/2009\/12\/a_special_colbert_report_a_comic_and_chums_offer_a_post-mortem_on_a_famous_washington_dinner_suggest.php\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>, but Colbert the person, not the character that he plays on his show.<\/p>\n<p>He was at a reunion of Second City comedians, and they had a panel on comedy and politics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">As for Glenn Beck, the panel discussed the challenge of maintaining a separation between reality and satire when so many TV pundits are simply, premeditatedly over-the-top.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;I said, &#8216;Let&#8217;s start doing some Glenn Beck stuff but in praise of Glenn Beck,'&#8221; said Colbert. &#8220;But every time we do one, he will have done something dumber. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">He raised the stupid bar and now it&#8217;s nearly inapproachable<\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Stephen Colbert, but Colbert the person, not the character that he plays on his show. He was at a reunion of Second City comedians, and they had a panel on comedy and politics: As for Glenn Beck, the panel discussed the challenge of maintaining a separation between reality and satire when so many &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1048,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-humor","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190003"}],"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=190003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}