{"id":228,"date":"2008-06-14T17:02:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T21:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/06\/14\/is-olbermann-turning-into-oreilly\/"},"modified":"2010-10-26T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T05:56:10","slug":"is-olbermann-turning-into-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/06\/14\/is-olbermann-turning-into-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Olbermann Turning Into O&#8217;Reilly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me?\u00a0 Or is Keith Olbermann turning into\u00a0Bill O&#8217;Reilly?<\/p>\n<p>The bombastic commentary.\u00a0 The narcissism.\u00a0 And, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/06\/12\/keith-olbermann-names-kat_n_106689.html\">the misogyny.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d thought that once Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, it would be safe to\u00a0start watching Countdown again. \u00a0Without Keith&#8217;s daily anti-Hillary target practice, I might even be able to watch it without cringing.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong!<\/p>\n<p>Keith&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/guerillawomentn.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/couric-condemns-hostile-sexist-media.html\">bloviating<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormarsh.com\/archives_view.php?id=27915\">&#8220;Worst Person in the World&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cameleopard.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/cruel-keith.html\">anti-Katie Couric<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/06\/12\/keith-olbermann-backlash_n_106775.html\">tirade<\/a> was almost enough to make me turn to Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Talk about desperate!<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Is Olbermann Turning Into O&#8217;Reilly?\u00a0<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>In the past I cheered Olbermann&#8217;s rants&#8212;<br \/>\nLoved his anti-war, anti-Bush stance.<br \/>\nBut misogynous bluster<br \/>\nIs all he can muster<br \/>\nIn Olbermann&#8217;s mirror-romance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me?\u00a0 Or is Keith Olbermann turning into\u00a0Bill O&#8217;Reilly? The bombastic commentary.\u00a0 The narcissism.\u00a0 And, of course, the misogyny. I&#8217;d thought that once Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, it would be safe to\u00a0start watching Countdown again. \u00a0Without Keith&#8217;s daily anti-Hillary target practice, I might even be able to watch it without cringing. Wrong! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,164,72,21,121,153,96,163,26,154,6,7,3],"tags":[1443,1442,275,1444,337,1441,1440],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-bill-oreilly","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-feminism-humor","category-gender-politics","category-hillary-clinton","category-keith-olbermann","category-media-satire","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","tag-countdown","tag-couric-limerick","tag-media-humor","tag-misogyny-satire","tag-msnbc","tag-oreilly-verse","tag-olbermann-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}