{"id":191448,"date":"2009-08-15T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/ezra-klein-dead-pool\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T19:02:00","slug":"ezra-klein-dead-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/ezra-klein-dead-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Klein Dead Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is at least the 2nd time in as many months that <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2009\/08\/it_is_democracy_not_health-car.html\">Ezra Klein has called the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> Editorial Page<\/a>, and by extension it&#8217;s execrable editor Fred Hiatt for printing clearly dishonest garbage in a guest OP\/ED.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it was Danielle Allen, who put forward the &#8220;death panel&#8221; dishonesty.<\/p>\n<p>I figure that if honest evaluation of the accuracy and truthfulness of the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> editorial pages becomes a regular feature of his blogging, Mr. Kline will soon be looking for a new job.<\/p>\n<p>In would be nice if they instituted even the mildest fact checking in their editorial page, though this would necessarily make Charles Krauthammer&#8217;s articles read like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<br \/>..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is at least the 2nd time in as many months that Ezra Klein has called the Washington Post Editorial Page, and by extension it&#8217;s execrable editor Fred Hiatt for printing clearly dishonest garbage in a guest OP\/ED. In this case, it was Danielle Allen, who put forward the &#8220;death panel&#8221; dishonesty. I figure that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1046,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-healthcare","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191448"}],"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=191448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}