The good folks at the Gray Lady wrote a story on Marine Le Pen, the right wing nationalist running for French President.<\/p>\n
It’s a rather soft article, highlighting things like her cat breeding, which is kind of classic New York Times<\/i>, normalizing awful people, but whoever wrote the hed, and it’s probably an editor, and not the author, should be fired, because, “On the Scrappy Fringes of French Politics, Marine Le Pen Tries to Rebrand<\/span><\/b><\/a>,” is a simply horrific exercise in editorial discretion.<\/p>\n It is simply, “Bad beyond all dimensions of of possible badness,” to quote Berkeley Breathed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The good folks at the Gray Lady wrote a story on Marine Le Pen, the right wing nationalist running for French President. It’s a rather soft article, highlighting things like her cat breeding, which is kind of classic New York Times, normalizing awful people, but whoever wrote the hed, and it’s probably an editor, and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200300"}],"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=200300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}