{"id":106,"date":"2007-04-05T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T20:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/04\/05\/truth-on-the-lam\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T18:11:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T22:11:03","slug":"truth-on-the-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/04\/05\/truth-on-the-lam\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth On The Lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airamerica.com\/maddow\/node\/2498\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> has an\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rachel-maddow\/an-open-letter-to-senator_b_45024.html\">update on Orrin Hatch&#8217;s smear campaign against Carol Lam,<\/a> the U.S. Attorney for San Diego who was recently fired by the Justice Department. Senator Hatch has now issued a just-barely-an-apology for telling the following lies about Lam this past Sunday on NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She was a former law professor, no prosecutorial experience, and the former campaign manager in Southern California for Clinton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve summarized this sorry saga in a pair of limericks called Truth On The Lam:<\/p>\n<p>Truth On The Lam<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Orrin Hatch hatched big lies about Lam,<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t admit that his claims are a sham.<br \/>\nShe was wrongfully axed,<br \/>\nBut he conjured up &#8220;facts&#8221;.<br \/>\nAbout truth Hatch does not give a damn.<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure, Hatch issues a letter<br \/>\nTo Tim Russert that isn&#8217;t much better<br \/>\nThan his televised lies.<br \/>\nHatch just barely denies<br \/>\nThat his Lam claims belong in the shredder.\u00a0 [tags]Carol Lam, Orrin Hatch, Senator Hatch, Tim Russert, Televised Lies, Rachel Maddow, Smear Campaign, U.S. Attorney, San Diego, Justice Department, NBC&#8217;s Meet The Press, Prosecutorial Experience[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow has an\u00a0 update on Orrin Hatch&#8217;s smear campaign against Carol Lam, the U.S. Attorney for San Diego who was recently fired by the Justice Department. Senator Hatch has now issued a just-barely-an-apology for telling the following lies about Lam this past Sunday on NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press: She was a former law professor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,15,50,76,2,26,74,6,7,3,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carol-lam","category-congress","category-corruption-humor","category-justice-department","category-law","category-media-satire","category-orrin-hatch","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}