{"id":194868,"date":"2008-08-13T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/and-sometimes-thomas-the-mustache-of-pablum-friedman-is-right\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:22:00","slug":"and-sometimes-thomas-the-mustache-of-pablum-friedman-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/and-sometimes-thomas-the-mustache-of-pablum-friedman-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"And Sometimes Thomas &#8220;The Mustache of Pablum&#8221; Friedman is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Such as when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/13\/opinion\/13friedman.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin\">criticizes McCain for not even bothering to show up for votes on energy policy<\/a>, he has missed <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">all 8 votes this year<\/span>, while demagoguing the drilling issue for Bikers taking a break from a topless beauty contest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything else is just bogus rhetoric designed by cynical candidates who think Americans are so stupid \u2014 so bloody stupid \u2014 that if you just show them wind turbines in your Olympics ad they\u2019ll actually think you showed up and voted for such renewable power \u2014 when you didn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such as when he criticizes McCain for not even bothering to show up for votes on energy policy, he has missed all 8 votes this year, while demagoguing the drilling issue for Bikers taking a break from a topless beauty contest: Everything else is just bogus rhetoric designed by cynical candidates who think Americans are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1135,1228,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-energy","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194868"}],"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=194868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}