{"id":219,"date":"2008-04-25T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/04\/25\/ode-to-pious-john-mccain\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T19:40:07","slug":"ode-to-pious-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/04\/25\/ode-to-pious-john-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Pious John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philly Inq&#8217;s Dick Polman really nails it in his must-read post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/americandebate\/18174809.html\">John McCain&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8220;artful dance with North Carolina Republican leaders,<\/a> who have fashioned a low-road, anti-Obama advertisement that is slated to air on statewide TV next Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on McCain&#8217;s political skills and pseudo-piety, he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When it comes time to dish the dirt, he keeps his hands clean as he tut-tuts about the incivility of our politics. He looks good doing it \u2013 the Washington press generally loves it when he\u2019s in pious mode on the high road \u2013 and, meanwhile, he gets to reap the rewards of the dirt being dished. Why pilot your own Swift Boat when it\u2019s so much more attractive to condemn those who do it for you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s my cue for my Pious John McCain limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To Pious John McCain<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Watch the press fall for pious McCain,<br \/>\nAs he calls for a lofty campaign.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re so easily spun,<br \/>\nAs his dirty work&#8217;s done<br \/>\nWith an ad he pretends to disdain.[tags]John McCain Humor, Presidential Campaign Ads, Election Limerick, Media Humor[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philly Inq&#8217;s Dick Polman really nails it in his must-read post about John McCain&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8220;artful dance with North Carolina Republican leaders, who have fashioned a low-road, anti-Obama advertisement that is slated to air on statewide TV next Monday.&#8221; Commenting on McCain&#8217;s political skills and pseudo-piety, he says: When it comes time to dish the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,159,40,26,6,7,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-john-mccain","category-media-satire","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}