{"id":10155,"date":"2014-05-14T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T18:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=10155"},"modified":"2014-05-14T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T18:59:41","slug":"karl-rove-hillary-clinton-brain-damage-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2014\/05\/14\/karl-rove-hillary-clinton-brain-damage-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bush&#8217;s Brain&#8221; Does It Again (2-Verse Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Rove a\/k\/a &#8220;Turd Blossom&#8221; a\/k\/a &#8220;Bush&#8217;s Brain&#8221; is at it again.  And this time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/05\/karl-rove-hillary-clinton-brain-injury-106613.html\">his target is Hillary Clinton.<\/a> First he strongly implies that she had &#8220;traumatic brain injury,&#8221; while greatly exaggerating the length of her hospital stay:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThirty days in the hospital?\u201d Rove said, according to the report. \u201cAnd when she reappears, she\u2019s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what\u2019s up with that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next he <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/05\/karl-rove-tries-back-hillary-brain-damage\">denies using the specific phrase &#8220;brain damage,&#8221;<\/a> as if that makes everything copacetic.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/05\/why-karl-rove-uses-dirty-tricks-they-work\/370811\/\">dirty tricks attack is SOP for Karl Rove<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bush&#8217;s Brain&#8221; Does It Again (2-Verse Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Rove&#8217;s method is slur and then flee.<br \/>\nHis hit jobs leave drive-by debris.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll strongly imply<br \/>\nSomething&#8217;s true, then deny<br \/>\nThat he used a set phrase he deems key.<\/p>\n<p>Rove&#8217;s now on an anti-Hill spree,<br \/>\nLodging brain-health aspersions with glee.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll imply Hill&#8217;ry&#8217;s brain<br \/>\nHas been damaged, then feign<br \/>\nComplete innocence: Smear her? Not ME!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Rove a\/k\/a &#8220;Turd Blossom&#8221; a\/k\/a &#8220;Bush&#8217;s Brain&#8221; is at it again. And this time his target is Hillary Clinton. First he strongly implies that she had &#8220;traumatic brain injury,&#8221; while greatly exaggerating the length of her hospital stay: \u201cThirty days in the hospital?\u201d Rove said, according to the report. \u201cAnd when she reappears, she\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,96,57,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[192,2489,194,2793,2778,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10155"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10180,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}