{"id":3553,"date":"2010-08-03T03:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T07:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2010-08-03T03:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T07:58:56","slug":"rangel-ensign-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/08\/03\/rangel-ensign-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Why So &#8220;Liberal&#8221; With Charlie Rangel Coverage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t meant to minimize the importance of the Congressional ethics charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel. But I can&#8217;t help wondering why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_08\/025004.php\">media<\/a> can&#8217;t spare just a bit of space to cover the FBI&#8217;s criminal investigation into Sen. John Ensign.  Hey journalists &#8212; I thought you liked covering juicy scandals involving money and sex.<\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Why So &#8220;Liberal&#8221; With Charlie Rangel Coverage?<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve a question dear journos &#8212; a gem.<br \/>\nAnd kindly don&#8217;t haw and don&#8217;t hem.<br \/>\nWhere&#8217;s your cov&#8217;rage of Ensign?<br \/>\nYou sure love dispensin&#8217;<br \/>\nThe dirt on Rep. Rangel &#8212; the Dem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t meant to minimize the importance of the Congressional ethics charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel. But I can&#8217;t help wondering why the media can&#8217;t spare just a bit of space to cover the FBI&#8217;s criminal investigation into Sen. John Ensign. Hey journalists &#8212; I thought you liked covering juicy scandals involving money and sex. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,50,466,791,26,792,156,6,7,3],"tags":[1200,1372,534,1371,2854,1373,275,793,282],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption-humor","category-crime","category-john-ensign","category-media-satire","category-nevada-humor","category-new-york-politics","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","tag-charlie-rangel","tag-double-standards","tag-ethics","tag-fbi","tag-john-ensign","tag-media-bias","tag-media-humor","tag-nevada","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","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=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}