{"id":195554,"date":"2008-06-30T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/30\/on-olbermanns-special-comment\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T01:33:00","slug":"on-olbermanns-special-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/30\/on-olbermanns-special-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"On Olbermann&#8217;s Special Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">REALLY<\/span> weak.<\/p>\n<p>The logic was circuitous, and and the fire was just not there.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that Charlie Pierce was right when he worried that Keith may be wearing out the batteries on hiss special comments.<\/p>\n<p>While I think that it was accurate, it was just a realistic listing of what was going on politically, without any of the fire that you normally get.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">on edit<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>You can get a clip and a transcript of the special comment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/06\/30\/special-comment-olbermann-challenges-obama-to-do-the-right-thing-on-fisa\/\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>.  Interestingly enough, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">unlike<\/span> most of his special comments, it reads better than it shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, REALLY weak. The logic was circuitous, and and the fire was just not there. I believe that Charlie Pierce was right when he worried that Keith may be wearing out the batteries on hiss special comments. While I think that it was accurate, it was just a realistic listing of what was going on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195554"}],"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=195554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}