{"id":190402,"date":"2009-12-01T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/01\/this-is-a-big-day-for-they-who-must-not-be-named\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T03:06:00","slug":"this-is-a-big-day-for-they-who-must-not-be-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/01\/this-is-a-big-day-for-they-who-must-not-be-named\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Big Day for  They Who Must Not Be Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me add Tareq and Michaele Salahi, aka the &#8220;White House gate crashers&#8221; to my list of <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/They%20Who%20Must%20Not%20Be%20Named\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/span><\/a>, but it now appears that I must add a special exception: when Jon Stewart (top) or Stephen Colbert (bottom) get medieval on the asses of <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/span>, the posting of these videos shall be exempt.<\/p>\n<p>The original rule, as applied to <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/this-is-paris-free-zone.html\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">She Who Must Not Be Named<\/span><\/a>, was, &#8220;Absent some sort of political activity, such as endorsements, running for office (<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PLEASE GOD NO!!<\/span>), or her attempting to assassinate someone, she will not be mentioned here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rule now reads as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Absent some sort of political activity, such as endorsements, running for office (<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PLEASE GOD NO!!<\/span>), an attempt to assassinate someone, they will not be mentioned here, unless there is a wicked funny video making fun of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, are we clear now?<\/p>\n<p>In any case, we hit the trifecta, or is that the bifecta, with both Stewart (top, 7:57) <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and<\/span> Colbert (bottom, 0:33) being&#8230;.well Stewart and Colbert.<\/p>\n<p><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:256395\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:256923\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me add Tareq and Michaele Salahi, aka the &#8220;White House gate crashers&#8221; to my list of They Who Must Not Be Named, but it now appears that I must add a special exception: when Jon Stewart (top) or Stephen Colbert (bottom) get medieval on the asses of They Who Must Not Be Named, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1118,1082,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-meta","category-they-who-must-not-be-named","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190402"}],"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=190402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}