{"id":190508,"date":"2009-11-19T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/19\/stewart-on-palin\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T19:34:00","slug":"stewart-on-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/19\/stewart-on-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart on Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\"><p>When you peel back the pretty, shooty layers of the Palin onion, there&#8217;s no onion. It&#8217;s just a conservative boiler plate mad lib: &#8216;Freedom is good and taxes are&#8211;ooh I need an adjective&#8211;how about, I don&#8217;t know, silly?&#8217; And the worst part it&#8217;s a mad lib delivered as though it were the hard-earned wisdom of a life well lived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s just magical, and it starts at 3:40, though the first part is amusing too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as good as Stephen Colbert&#8217;s takedown of her (scroll down).  But it is very good.<\/p>\n<p><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:256361\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"301\" width=\"360\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he says: When you peel back the pretty, shooty layers of the Palin onion, there&#8217;s no onion. It&#8217;s just a conservative boiler plate mad lib: &#8216;Freedom is good and taxes are&#8211;ooh I need an adjective&#8211;how about, I don&#8217;t know, silly?&#8217; And the worst part it&#8217;s a mad lib delivered as though it were 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":[1065,1100,1175,978,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-funny","category-literature","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190508"}],"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=190508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}