{"id":3318,"date":"2010-06-10T03:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T07:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2010-06-10T03:16:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T07:16:43","slug":"obama-kick-ass-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/06\/10\/obama-kick-ass-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick-Ass Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The language police are at it again.  Republicans and Fox News (sorry to be redundant) are simply horrified at President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;unpresidential&#8221; language.  <\/p>\n<p>What are they so pretend-upset about?  Obama used the word <em>ass<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2010\/06\/obama-looking-for-something-to-kick\/1?\">in response to Matt Lauer&#8217;s<\/a> oil crisis question about kicking <em>butt<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>Apparently this is extremely shocking to the same folks who had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_06\/024170.php\">no problem with <em>f**ks<\/em> from Bush, Cheney, and McCain.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Kick-Ass Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans&#8217; delicate ears<br \/>\nAre offended by <em>ass<\/em>, it appears.<br \/>\n<em>F**k<\/em> is  fine  from McCain,<br \/>\nBush, and Cheney  &#8212; that&#8217;s plain.<br \/>\nBut <em>ass <\/em>from Barack begets jeers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The language police are at it again. Republicans and Fox News (sorry to be redundant) are simply horrified at President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;unpresidential&#8221; language. What are they so pretend-upset about? Obama used the word ass in response to Matt Lauer&#8217;s oil crisis question about kicking butt. Apparently this is extremely shocking to the same folks who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,16,21,120,585,8,20,40,1164,26,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[2792,2760,1057,2773,1344,1248,1343,841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318"}],"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=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}