{"id":191648,"date":"2009-07-15T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/15\/the-ezra-klein-dead-pool\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:52:00","slug":"the-ezra-klein-dead-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/15\/the-ezra-klein-dead-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ezra Klein Dead Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 205px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img188.imageshack.us\/img188\/2969\/minilarson037790049.jpg\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bummer of a birth mark, Ezra<\/span><\/div>\n<p>WaPo blogger Ezra Klein <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2009\/07\/sarah_palin_one_of_us.html\">tore Sarah Palin, and the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> editorial page, a new one<\/a> with regards to her editorial.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well deserved, but he works for the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span>, and the only people who get to criticize the paper are conservatives and people like Howard Kurtz, whose right-wing consultant wife has, over the years, literally received a paycheck from the Republican party, and then only because the paper does not give conservatives a fair shake.<\/p>\n<p>I figure that he will be out by the beginning of November.<\/p>\n<p>The model here is Dan Froomkin, who was, IMNSHO, fired because he called out the most egregious of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> editorial page hacks, his exchange with the dishonest and insane Charles Krauthammer comes to mind, on their dishonesty and hacktacular behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer of a birth mark, Ezra WaPo blogger Ezra Klein tore Sarah Palin, and the Washington Post editorial page, a new one with regards to her editorial. It&#8217;s well deserved, but he works for the Washington Post, and the only people who get to criticize the paper are conservatives and people like Howard Kurtz, whose &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,975,1129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-employment","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191648"}],"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=191648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}