{"id":1884,"date":"2009-10-31T18:33:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T22:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2009-10-31T18:33:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T22:33:47","slug":"short-on-facts-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/10\/31\/short-on-facts-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Short On Facts&#8221; Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the silliest Republican (and Fox News) talking points is that the Democratic health reform bill is too long.  Fox News Live Desk&#8217;s Trace Gallagher seems especially fond of it, making repeated (and inaccurate) <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200910300031\">comparisons to Tolstoy&#8217;s <em>War and Peace<\/em><\/a>.  (Well, we always knew that Fox is fond of fiction.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Short On Facts&#8221; Fox (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>When on substance your grasp just ain&#8217;t strong,<br \/>\nSimply bitch that the health bill&#8217;s too long.<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>War and Peace <\/em>is much shorter,&#8221;<br \/>\nRants Trace (Fox &#8220;reporter&#8221;),<br \/>\nAnd even on <strong>that<\/strong> Fox is wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the silliest Republican (and Fox News) talking points is that the Democratic health reform bill is too long. Fox News Live Desk&#8217;s Trace Gallagher seems especially fond of it, making repeated (and inaccurate) comparisons to Tolstoy&#8217;s War and Peace. (Well, we always knew that Fox is fond of fiction.) &#8220;Short On Facts&#8221; Fox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[585,52,11,26,6,7,3,9,576],"tags":[278,780,2748,851,968,972,204,970,971,967],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fox-news-humor","category-health-satire","category-legislation","category-media-satire","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-television-tv-satire","tag-fox-news","tag-health-reform","tag-law","tag-legislation-satire","tag-leo-tolstoy","tag-literature-humor","tag-media","tag-russian-novels","tag-talking-points","tag-trace-gallagher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","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=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}