{"id":193836,"date":"2008-11-13T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/why-do-people-hire-michael-barone\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T11:01:00","slug":"why-do-people-hire-michael-barone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/why-do-people-hire-michael-barone\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Hire Michael Barone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a just world, people would leave when he walked into the room, because anyone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1108\/15527.html\">who would say this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos Tuesday morning after political analyst Michael Barone said journalists trashed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republicans&#8217; vice presidential nominee, because &#8220;she did not abort her Down syndrome baby.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is not a functioning member of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>He later claimed that it was a joke, which makes it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">worse<\/span>, because if he actually believes that, he is sick, and if it&#8217;s a joke, he&#8217;s just <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">evil<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a just world, people would leave when he walked into the room, because anyone who would say this: A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos Tuesday morning after political analyst Michael Barone said journalists trashed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republicans&#8217; vice presidential nominee, because &#8220;she did not abort her Down syndrome baby.&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,978,1122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-politics","category-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193836"}],"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=193836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}