{"id":123,"date":"2007-06-21T18:39:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T22:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/06\/21\/the-gops-in-for-a-rudy-awakening\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T22:48:19","slug":"the-gops-in-for-a-rudy-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/06\/21\/the-gops-in-for-a-rudy-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP’s In For A Rudy Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a long-time New York City resident, I’m amused by Rudy Giuliani’s candidacy.\u00a0 And I find it ironic that\u00a0Rudy doesn’t dare\u00a0brag about the one\u00a0thing that\u00a0might appeal to\u00a0people\u00a0 put off by his pro-choice, pro-gay rights positions — Giuliani’s aggressive stance against free<\/a> speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But understanding irony has never been Rudy’s strong suit.\u00a0 For instance, he’s unlikely to appreciate the irony underlying his running as the security-candidate, after\u00a0Newsday outed him as a greedy windbag who was forced to drop-out of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group<\/a> because he was too busy giving lucrative speeches<\/a> to attend ISG\u00a0meetings:<\/p>\n

The GOP’s In For A Rudy Awakening
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

He’ll protect us–that’s Rudy’s motif.
\nBut his claim must defy all belief:
\nCause when push comes to shove,
\nMajor wealth’s his first love.
\nHe’s the ISG Drop-Out-In-Chief. [tags]Rudy Giuliani, Security President, ISG, Iraq Study Group, Newsday, New York City, Pro-Choice, Pro-Gay Rights, Free Speech, Security Candidate, Greedy Windbag, Lucrative Speeches[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a long-time New York City resident, I’m amused by Rudy Giuliani’s candidacy.\u00a0 And I find it ironic that\u00a0Rudy doesn’t dare\u00a0brag about the one\u00a0thing that\u00a0might appeal to\u00a0people\u00a0 put off by his pro-choice, pro-gay rights positions — Giuliani’s aggressive stance against free speech. But understanding irony has never been Rudy’s strong suit.\u00a0 For instance, he’s unlikely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,38,66,20,19,86,6,7,3,63,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-satire","category-foreign-policy","category-free-speech","category-gop-humor","category-iraq-war","category-new-york-mayors","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-rudy-giuliani","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","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=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}