{"id":3278,"date":"2010-06-08T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2010-06-08T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T19:20:43","slug":"barbour-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/06\/08\/barbour-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley&#8217;s Barbaric Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While  Govs. Bobby Jindal (R-La.), Charlie Crist (I-Fla.), and Bob Riley (R-Ala.) seem to take the Gulf oil spill crisis very seriously, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_06\/024127.php\">downplaying<\/a> the disaster, talking as if it&#8217;s a fictitious crisis created by the media. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, according to Barbour, <a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/node\/37555\">&#8220;tar balls are no big deal.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest negative impact for us has been the news coverage. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our tourist season has been hurt by the misperception of what is going on down here. The Mississippi Gulf Coast is beautiful. As I tell people, the coast is clear. Come on down!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Haley&#8217;s Barbaric Attitude<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t worry, be happy,<\/em> says Haley,<br \/>\nIn spite of the news we get daily.<br \/>\n<em>Just ignore the press squeal.<br \/>\nThe spill&#8217;s no big deal.<\/em><br \/>\nMust be nice to view crises so gaily.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/05\/17\/murkowski-oil-spill-liability\/\">Oily Obstruction<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Govs. Bobby Jindal (R-La.), Charlie Crist (I-Fla.), and Bob Riley (R-Ala.) seem to take the Gulf oil spill crisis very seriously, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has been downplaying the disaster, talking as if it&#8217;s a fictitious crisis created by the media. For instance, according to Barbour, &#8220;tar balls are no big deal.&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1264,1314,8,20,26,154,7,3,9,17],"tags":[1337,2837,1308,1336,1315,1307,1338,275,1340,1312,1339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278"}],"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=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}