{"id":211,"date":"2008-04-13T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T21:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/04\/13\/hey-obama-sycophants-dont-say-we-didnt-warn-you\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T17:33:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T21:33:30","slug":"hey-obama-sycophants-dont-say-we-didnt-warn-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/04\/13\/hey-obama-sycophants-dont-say-we-didnt-warn-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Obama Sycophants, Don&#8217;t Say We Didn&#8217;t Warn You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were <a href=\"http:\/\/susiemadrak.com\/2008\/03\/30\/08\/57\/media-bias\/\">warned,<\/a> but they refused to listen. And now they&#8217;re paying the price.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m referring, of course, to the Pro-Obama bloggers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2008\/4\/12\/191838\/014\">who delight in anti-Dem media bias,<\/a> so long as it&#8217;s directed at Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>But a funny thing happened on the way to the election: Now that the press is giving Obama a hard time over his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormarsh.com\/archives_view.php?id=27396\">condescending bitter-small-town-America faux pas,<\/a> these press bias-enablers are suddenly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2008\/04\/bandwagon-effect.html\">horrified by media bias.<\/a> Why? Because it&#8217;s <strong>their<\/strong> candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=04&#038;year=2008&#038;base_name=back_to_the_campaign#comments\">whose ox is being Gored.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Hey Obama Sycophants, Don&#8217;t Say We Didn&#8217;t Warn You!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The press is unfair to Barack,&#8221;<br \/>\nWhines the Cult of Obama with shock.<br \/>\nLoaded questions, contortions<br \/>\nOf words, and distortions<br \/>\nNow wrong, cuz it&#8217;s <strong>their<\/strong> guy they mock.[tags]Media Bias, Press Bias, Media Humor, Senator Obama, Senator Clinton, Presidential Election Campaign Satire[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were warned, but they refused to listen. And now they&#8217;re paying the price. I&#8217;m referring, of course, to the Pro-Obama bloggers who delight in anti-Dem media bias, so long as it&#8217;s directed at Hillary Clinton. But a funny thing happened on the way to the election: Now that the press is giving Obama a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,21,82,26,154,6,7,3,88,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}