{"id":202,"date":"2008-03-05T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T00:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/03\/05\/hysterical-lefty-bloggers-whine-for-clinton-to-leave-obama-alone\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T20:23:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T00:23:28","slug":"hysterical-lefty-bloggers-whine-for-clinton-to-leave-obama-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/03\/05\/hysterical-lefty-bloggers-whine-for-clinton-to-leave-obama-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hysterical Lefty Bloggers Whine For Clinton To Leave Obama Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Predictably,\u00a0the A-list lefty blog-calls for Hillary to get out of the presidential race have continued, notwithstanding last night&#8217;s Hillary Clinton wins. Any minute now, I half-expect to read that Hillary&#8217;s refusal to bow out is racist.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these hand-the-nomination-to-its-rightful-owner rants come from the same bloggers who insist that Obama isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/02\/17\/obamas-words-a-textbook-case-of-subtle-sexism\/\">sexist<\/a> and that the media hasn&#8217;t been biased against Clinton. (Americablog is but one example and no, I will <strong>not<\/strong> link to it.)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, these\u00a0bloggers can&#8217;t wait for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/pressing-issues-by-digby-blogosphere-is.html\">media to turn its biased<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2008\/3\/5\/13356\/06344\">dirty tricks on Obama.<\/a>\u00a0 Because that&#8217;s exactly what will happen if\/when Clinton is out of the picture:<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>The press guys can&#8217;t wait to declare<br \/>\nThat Clinton&#8217;s kaput on the air.<br \/>\nThen they&#8217;ll turn on Barack:<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll malign and they&#8217;ll mock<br \/>\nHim, the way they hit Hill&#8217;ry. Beware![tags]Presidential Politics, Lefty Bloggers, Press Bias, Media Sexism, Racist Accusations, Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, Media Humor[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predictably,\u00a0the A-list lefty blog-calls for Hillary to get out of the presidential race have continued, notwithstanding last night&#8217;s Hillary Clinton wins. Any minute now, I half-expect to read that Hillary&#8217;s refusal to bow out is racist. Of course, these hand-the-nomination-to-its-rightful-owner rants come from the same bloggers who insist that Obama isn&#8217;t sexist and that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,153,96,82,26,154,6,7,3,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"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=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}