{"id":1759,"date":"2009-09-29T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2009-10-01T01:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T05:48:00","slug":"gingrich-bilingualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/09\/29\/gingrich-bilingualism\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt’s Bilingual Newspeak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newt Gingrich, you’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do! Please tell me how someone who has repeatedly railed against bilingualism<\/a> can launch a bilingual website.<\/a> The Americano,<\/a> a news site for Hispanic-Americans, is a transparent effort to lure memory-impaired Latinos over to the GOP. <\/p>\n

A two-verse limerick in honor of the hypocritical Newt Gingrich:<\/p>\n

Newt’s Bilingual Newspeak
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Here’s a long-standing view from the right:
\nEducation bilingual’s a blight.
\nThat’s how Newt has opined.
\nDearest Newt, changed your mind?
\nQuite the pander — your bilingual site.<\/p>\n

Guess you’re hoping Latinos forget
\nYour stance that bilingual’s all wet,
\nThat they’ll vote GOP.
\nBut Latinos shall see
\nThrough your bilingual lies on the Net.<\/p>\n

Related Posts: Hark! The Disgraced Former Speaker Speaks;<\/a> and Ode To Fresh Faces<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newt Gingrich, you’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do! Please tell me how someone who has repeatedly railed against bilingualism can launch a bilingual website. The Americano, a news site for Hispanic-Americans, is a transparent effort to lure memory-impaired Latinos over to the GOP. A two-verse limerick in honor of the hypocritical Newt Gingrich: Newt’s Bilingual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[933,885,21,20,159,26,519,154,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[741,935,934,204,936,729,841],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilingualism","category-education-limerick","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-media-satire","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","tag-bilingual-education","tag-hispanics","tag-latinos","tag-media","tag-newspeak","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-republican-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","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=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}