{"id":194628,"date":"2008-09-04T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/04\/the-politicos-roger-simon-gets-one-right-for-once\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:09:00","slug":"the-politicos-roger-simon-gets-one-right-for-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/04\/the-politicos-roger-simon-gets-one-right-for-once\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politico&#8217;s Roger Simon Gets One Right&#8230;..For Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0908\/13143.html\">apologizes for the behavior of the media<\/a> on the matter of Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n<p>Actually he doesn&#8217;t, he explains just <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">what<\/span> Republicans find unacceptable about media coverage, and his use of the famous Lily Tomlin quote, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">No matter how cynical I get, it\u2019s just never enough to keep up<\/span>,&#8221; is a nice use of quote.<\/p>\n<p>Go read.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it means much, except that perhaps the &#8220;elite media&#8221; that McCain is now complaining about, the media that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">literally<\/span> heckled Mitt Romney, and did <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">everything<\/span> it could to get McCain the nomination, is beginning to realize that McCain isn&#8217;t another pundit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only taken them about 26 years that McCain is all hat and no cattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He apologizes for the behavior of the media on the matter of Sarah Palin. Actually he doesn&#8217;t, he explains just what Republicans find unacceptable about media coverage, and his use of the famous Lily Tomlin quote, &#8220;No matter how cynical I get, it\u2019s just never enough to keep up,&#8221; is a nice use of quote. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194628"}],"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=194628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}