{"id":194753,"date":"2008-08-21T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/21\/a-washington-pundit-uses-the-l-word\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:17:00","slug":"a-washington-pundit-uses-the-l-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/21\/a-washington-pundit-uses-the-l-word\/","title":{"rendered":"A Washington Pundit Uses the &#8220;L&#8221; Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I don&#8217;t mean in a conversation about Rachael Maddow&#8217;s new job at MSNBC.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>I mean that Jonathan Alter just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/154058\">called John McCain a liar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His final graph:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But when he resorts to these kinds of falsehoods, and casts such aspersions on his opponent&#8217;s patriotism, John McCain is no longer putting his country first. If he were, he would recognize that the interests of the nation require a relatively truthful campaign. To fulfill his image of himself, McCain should <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">stop lying about his opponent<\/span><\/span>. For a man with his claims to honor and integrity, that&#8217;s not too much to ask.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a word that you <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">never<\/span> see in political writing.  Ever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that the sick old man is losing his base, the Beltway pundits&#8230;..Please make this so.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">No offense intended toward the talent Ms. Maddow.  She has been out, and proud, for years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I don&#8217;t mean in a conversation about Rachael Maddow&#8217;s new job at MSNBC.* I mean that Jonathan Alter just called John McCain a liar His final graph: But when he resorts to these kinds of falsehoods, and casts such aspersions on his opponent&#8217;s patriotism, John McCain is no longer putting his country first. If &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1228,1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194753"}],"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=194753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}