{"id":216,"date":"2008-04-08T16:13:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/04\/08\/biased-journalists-and-bloggers-heal-thyselves\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T20:26:13","slug":"biased-journalists-and-bloggers-heal-thyselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/04\/08\/biased-journalists-and-bloggers-heal-thyselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Biased Journalists And Bloggers, Heal Thyselves!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, cable honchos. Before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormarsh.com\/archives_view.php?id=27366\">lambasting Hillary for &#8220;failing to fact check,&#8221;<\/a> you might consider dabbling in some fact checking yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m referring, of course, to the <a href=\"http:\/\/noquarterusa.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/the-real-trina-bachtel-story\/\">media&#8217;s dead hospital patient mock-fest<\/a> and, more broadly, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2008\/4\/8\/13471\/74876\">the &#8220;Gore-ing&#8221; of Hillary Clinton.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Biased Journalists\u00a0And\u00a0Bloggers, Heal Thyselves<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>In cov&#8217;rage quite sloppy at best,<br \/>\nThe press attacked Hill&#8217;ry with zest,<br \/>\nDisputing her facts.<br \/>\nBut\u00a0&#8217;twas they who were lax.<br \/>\nCuz if Clinton says east they say west.[tags]Biased Bloggers, Sloppy Journalists, Senator Clinton, Press Fact Checking, Presidential Campaign Satire, Election Humor, Health Humor, Media Limerick[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, cable honchos. Before lambasting Hillary for &#8220;failing to fact check,&#8221; you might consider dabbling in some fact checking yourselves. I&#8217;m referring, of course, to the media&#8217;s dead hospital patient mock-fest and, more broadly, to the &#8220;Gore-ing&#8221; of Hillary Clinton. And that brings me to my latest limerick: Biased Journalists\u00a0And\u00a0Bloggers, Heal Thyselves By Madeleine Begun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,52,96,82,26,154,6,7,3,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}