{"id":194859,"date":"2008-08-13T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/wanker-of-the-day-cokie-roberts\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T03:11:00","slug":"wanker-of-the-day-cokie-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/wanker-of-the-day-cokie-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanker of the Day: Cokie Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/kgmb9.com\/main\/content\/view\/8965\/40\/\">Barack Obama is somehow elitist for going to Hawaii<\/a>, where his <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">grandmother<\/span> lives.<\/p>\n<p>I spent 10 of my first 18 years on the west coast.  Hawaii is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> an exotic vacation location&#8230;.It&#8217;s firmly middlebrow&#8230;Unless, of course, you think that going outside the DC beltway is a long trip.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii&#8217;s Congressional delegation weighed in too:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The comments, received a lot of backlash from Hawaii&#8217;s representatives in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">bit of a fool<\/span> that&#8217;s the only thing you can say,&#8221; said Rep. Neil Abercrombie. &#8221; Don&#8217;t forget Cokie Roberts and the whole Washington crowd <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">live in a kind of an incestuous relationship to one another<\/span>, they talk to one another, they see one another,<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> they know nothing about ordinary people<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Senator Daniel Akaka said calling Hawaii &#8220;foreign&#8221; does a disservice to the hardworking patriotic Americans who call Hawaii home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>I rather imagine that Senator Daniel Inouye, who lost his arm serving this country, did not have a quote suitable for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For saying that Barack Obama is somehow elitist for going to Hawaii, where his grandmother lives. I spent 10 of my first 18 years on the west coast. Hawaii is not an exotic vacation location&#8230;.It&#8217;s firmly middlebrow&#8230;Unless, of course, you think that going outside the DC beltway is a long trip. Hawaii&#8217;s Congressional delegation weighed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194859"}],"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=194859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}