{"id":1080,"date":"2009-05-27T18:07:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T22:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2009-05-28T00:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T04:02:57","slug":"newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/05\/27\/newt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hark! The Disgraced Former Speaker Speaks."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s simple enough to avoid Judge Sonia Sotomayor smear-tweets like these<\/a>:<\/p>\n

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.<\/p>\n

Imagine a judicial nominee said “my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman” new racism is no better than old racism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just be sure not to follow Newt Gingrich’s Twitter feed.<\/a><\/p>\n

If only it were as easy to dodge Newt on TV, in print, and on the Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And that brings me to my latest song parody, which you can sing to Hark! The Herald Angels Sing<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hark! The Disgraced Former Speaker Speaks.
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Hark! The former Speaker speaks.
\nHeadlines, Speaker Gingrich seeks.
\nNews cos eagerly come through.
\nThey don’t care his claims ain’t true.<\/p>\n

Gleefully he airs his lies,
\nSpreading venom, media buys.
\nWatch the ousted Newt proclaim,
\nSonia is just a racist dame.<\/p>\n

Darkly, Gingrich spews his views.
\nCan’t avoid him on the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s simple enough to avoid Judge Sonia Sotomayor smear-tweets like these: White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw. Imagine a judicial nominee said “my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman” new racism is no better than old racism. Just be sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,26,519,154,3,9,727,13,258],"tags":[2754,732,2748,547,204,497,729,736,730,733,402,728,731,2757,2829],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary","category-law","category-media-satire","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-commentary","category-politics","category-republicans","category-sonia-sotomayor-verse","category-supreme-court","category-twitter","tag-judiciary","tag-latina","tag-law","tag-lies","tag-media","tag-news","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-obama-nominees","tag-racism","tag-smears","tag-song-parody","tag-sonia-sotomayor","tag-speaker","tag-supreme-court","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}