{"id":199010,"date":"2007-09-19T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/the-fred-thompson-clown-show-continues-2\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T01:33:00","slug":"the-fred-thompson-clown-show-continues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/the-fred-thompson-clown-show-continues-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fred Thompson Clown Show Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, our good Freddie Dalton Thompson<sup>*<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-blogs\/palmbeach\/floridapolitics\/entries\/2007\/09\/18\/thompson_drill_the_everglades.html\">is calling for oil drilling in the Everglades<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question about drilling there, he said, &#8220;Gosh, no one has told me there is any major reserves in the Everglades,&#8221; and &#8220;No one prefers to drill at all anywhere&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Way to go Freddie.  The clown show continues.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, this <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> in the tradition of Ronald Reagan, who spent an awful lot of time claiming that trees cause pollution.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>Yes, his birth certificate says &#8220;Freddie&#8221;, not Fred or Fredrick&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, our good Freddie Dalton Thompson* is calling for oil drilling in the Everglades. In response to a question about drilling there, he said, &#8220;Gosh, no one has told me there is any major reserves in the Everglades,&#8221; and &#8220;No one prefers to drill at all anywhere&#8221;. Way to go Freddie. The clown show &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199010"}],"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=199010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}