{"id":197,"date":"2008-01-16T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/01\/16\/hey-pundits-stifle-yourselves\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:28:53","slug":"hey-pundits-stifle-yourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/01\/16\/hey-pundits-stifle-yourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Pundits, Stifle Yourselves! (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide what&#8217;s more annoying &#8212; when pundits are wrong, or when they insist on finding meaning in the meaningless, deep significance in utter nonsense. Digby provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/just-shoot-me-by-digby-jesus-jump-up.html\">fine example of the latter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matthews, Olbermann, Norah O&#8217;Donnell and David Gregory are sitting around interpreting the Michigan Democratic vote and examining the exit polls to determine meaningful trends about the upcoming primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan means nothing, good or bad, for Democrats. &#8230; [CLINTON] WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE TOP THREE ON THE FRIGGING BALLOT! &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The primary doesn&#8217;t count. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re out there spewing crap anyway, trying to impact the race, making predictions, being fortune tellers as usual &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Hey Pundits, Stifle Yourselves!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The pundits opine and expound:<br \/>\nOn sheer nonsense they chew and they pound,<br \/>\nFinding meaning in stuff<br \/>\nThat means nothing. Enough!<br \/>\nWatch them frown as they wax so profound. [tags]Pundit Humor, Election, Humor, Media Limerick,\u00a0Campaign Satire, Vacuous Punditry, Michigan Primary, Democratic Primary, Presidential Campaign Poem[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide what&#8217;s more annoying &#8212; when pundits are wrong, or when they insist on finding meaning in the meaningless, deep significance in utter nonsense. Digby provides a fine example of the latter: Matthews, Olbermann, Norah O&#8217;Donnell and David Gregory are sitting around interpreting the Michigan Democratic vote and examining the exit polls to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,26,6,7,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-media-satire","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}