{"id":194004,"date":"2008-11-01T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/shorter-ted-stevens-im-insane-or-a-liar\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T20:22:00","slug":"shorter-ted-stevens-im-insane-or-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/shorter-ted-stevens-im-insane-or-a-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorter Ted Stevens: I&#8217;m Insane or a Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Senate debates in Alaska, Ted &#8220;Hulk Smash&#8221; Stevens <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/10\/31\/stevens.debate\/?iref=mpstoryview\">let this whopper fly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to step down. I have not been convicted. I have a case pending against me, and probably the worse case of prosecutorial &#8230; misconduct by the prosecutors that is known,&#8221; Stevens said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, you <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">have been convicted<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>You may expect a reversal on appeal, but you were convicted.<\/p>\n<p>C=MI<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">C<\/span>onservatism = <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">M<\/span>ental <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I<\/span>llness<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Senate debates in Alaska, Ted &#8220;Hulk Smash&#8221; Stevens let this whopper fly: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to step down. I have not been convicted. I have a case pending against me, and probably the worse case of prosecutorial &#8230; misconduct by the prosecutors that is known,&#8221; Stevens said. Yes, you have been convicted. You &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1000,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194004"}],"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=194004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}