{"id":2749,"date":"2010-03-06T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2010-03-06T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T00:02:16","slug":"liz-cheney-mccarthy-smears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/06\/liz-cheney-mccarthy-smears\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney: Chip Off The Old Crock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A right-winger has to go pretty far to be criticized by both the left and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_03\/022722.php\">right<\/a>.  But Liz Cheney and her <em>Keep America Safe<\/em> organization have managed to do it with their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/03\/05\/conservatives-turn-agains_n_487410.html\">McCarthy-like attacks on U.S. Justice Department lawyers, <\/a> smearing and demonizing them as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/The-Vote\/2010\/0306\/Liz-Cheney-Taking-flak-from-the-right-as-well-as-the-left\">terrorist sympathizers for their previous  legal work defending Gitmo detainees.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This brings me to my latest two-verse limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Liz Cheney: Chip Off The Old Crock<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Has Cheney gone stark raving mad?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m speaking of Liz &#8212; not her dad.<br \/>\nNow even some peers<br \/>\nAre attacking her smears<br \/>\nAs McCarthy-like.  Talk about sad!<\/p>\n<p>When her natural allies cry foul,<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s applying her lies with a trowel.<br \/>\nIf she fails to give in<br \/>\nAnd fess up to her sin,<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll end up with a Dick Cheney scowl.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/06\/08\/liz-cheneys-song\/\">Liz Cheney&#8217;s Song<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/05\/25\/ode-to-the-deceitful-cheneys\/\">Ode To The Deceitful Cheneys<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A right-winger has to go pretty far to be criticized by both the left and the right. But Liz Cheney and her Keep America Safe organization have managed to do it with their McCarthy-like attacks on U.S. Justice Department lawyers, smearing and demonizing them as terrorist sympathizers for their previous legal work defending Gitmo detainees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,16,21,707,20,2,168,717,26,6,7,3,27,17,69],"tags":[711,2788,1195,262,1093,2850,1194,1027,357],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-dick-cheney","category-election-satire","category-gitmo-humor","category-gop-humor","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-liz-cheney","category-media-satire","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-terrorism","category-white-house","category-wingnuts","tag-gitmo","tag-justice-department","tag-keep-america-safe","tag-lawyers","tag-legal-verse","tag-liz-cheney","tag-mccarthy-like-smears","tag-richard-cheney","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","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=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}