{"id":3459,"date":"2010-07-14T00:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T04:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2010-07-14T00:34:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T04:34:39","slug":"birther-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/07\/14\/birther-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth Of Lunacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote Monday, David Vitter has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/07\/12\/david-vitter-chet-traylor\/\">unexpected primary fight<\/a> on his hands.  Well, apparently he&#8217;s now so desperate to hold on to the wingnut vote, that he&#8217;s turned into a full-fledged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_07\/024699.php\">Birther<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a town hall event Sunday, he  made it clear that  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5idZPacmZiyemguTJ30vEiQxrdepAD9GTQT280\">he backs Birther lawsuits<\/a> challenging President Obama&#8217;s citizenship, saying he supports &#8220;conservative legal organizations and others who would bring that to court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest David Vitter limerick:<\/p>\n<p>The Birth Of Lunacy<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>David Vitter has told us his view<br \/>\nOf the Birther position, on cue.<br \/>\nHe profoundly approves<br \/>\nAnd says it behooves<br \/>\nThose with standing to sue, baby, sue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,1358,1201,21,20,2,168,6,7,3,9,17,69],"tags":[811,2876,1093,2784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459"}],"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=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}