{"id":3582,"date":"2010-08-10T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:06:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:06:31","slug":"robert-gibbs-attacks-left-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/08\/10\/robert-gibbs-attacks-left-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Limerick To Robert Gibbs and President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was both annoyed and amused by <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/113431-white-house-unloads-on-professional-left\">Robert Gibbs&#8217; anti-left freak out.<\/a>  Apparently, we progressives don&#8217;t sufficiently appreciate President Obama &#8212; wa wa wa!<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs&#8217; subsequent <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/plum-line\/2010\/08\/robert_gibbs_concedes_attack_o.html\">apology for his &#8220;inartful&#8221; attack on the left<\/a> doesn&#8217;t mitigate the need for this open limerick to Mr. Gibbs and his boss:<\/p>\n<p>Open Limerick To Robert Gibbs and President Obama<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gibbs is thin-skinned, it appears.<br \/>\nFrom the left, he wants only big cheers.<br \/>\nBut lefties just seek<br \/>\nA Dem Prez who ain&#8217;t weak.<br \/>\nWhite House courage is deep in arrears.<\/p>\n<p>This verse is for Robert Gibbs&#8217; boss.<br \/>\nIgnoring the left is your loss.<br \/>\nAnd a loss for the nation.<br \/>\nOur former elation<br \/>\nIs gone with your liberal gloss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was both annoyed and amused by Robert Gibbs&#8217; anti-left freak out. Apparently, we progressives don&#8217;t sufficiently appreciate President Obama &#8212; wa wa wa! Gibbs&#8217; subsequent apology for his &#8220;inartful&#8221; attack on the left doesn&#8217;t mitigate the need for this open limerick to Mr. Gibbs and his boss: Open Limerick To Robert Gibbs and President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,6,7,3,17],"tags":[1380,1266,348,1142,1379,2761],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house","tag-anti-left-rants","tag-liberals","tag-obama-verse","tag-progressives","tag-robert-gibbs","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","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=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}