{"id":42,"date":"2006-10-25T03:08:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T07:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/10\/25\/chatty-jack\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T20:25:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:25:55","slug":"chatty-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/10\/25\/chatty-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatty Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/news\/articles\/061023\/23abramoff.htm\">Abramoff has been so\u00a0helpful to the FBI&#8217;s widening\u00a0corruption\u00a0investigation,<\/a> that they&#8217;ve given him his own desk. I never thought I&#8217;d say this, but keep up the great work, Jack!<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chatty Jack<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Felon Jack has turned out to be chatty.<br \/>\nWere he female, some might call him catty.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s been telling great tales,<br \/>\nThat could send guys to jail.<br \/>\nAnd he&#8217;s driving Republicans batty.<\/p>\n<p>And now for your reading (and viewing) pleasure:<\/p>\n<p>*** Media Matters on <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200610240012\">Joe Lieberman and the lazy New York Times.<\/a> (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/xnerg.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/we-take-back-what-we-said-about-gray.html\">Skippy,<\/a> who, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/\">me,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/xnerg4.blogspot.com\/\">has started a second blog.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*** Norm can always be counted on to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/onegoodmove.org\/1gm\/1gmarchive\/2006\/10\/keiths_special.html\">video of Keith Olbermann&#8217;s great commentary.<\/a> (And speaking of Norm, he&#8217;s just launched <a href=\"http:\/\/onegoodmove.net\/bb\/\">a forum<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*** From The Specious Report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespeciousreport.com\/2006\/06061025limbaugh.html\">Rush Limbaugh Denies Going Off Meds to Criticize Fox.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*** Don Davis&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/satiricalpolitical.com\/?p=359\">GOP Congress To Bush: &#8216;Don&#8217;t Stand So Close To Me&#8217;<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*** Shakespeare&#8217;s Sister observes an interesting phenomena: <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/boy-those-republicans-sure-know-how-to.html\">Boy, those Republicans sure know how to write sex books!<\/a>\u00a0[tags]Jack Abramoff, Republican Corruption, Congressional Corruption, FBI Humor, Justice Department, Criminal Investigation[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Abramoff has been so\u00a0helpful to the FBI&#8217;s widening\u00a0corruption\u00a0investigation, that they&#8217;ve given him his own desk. I never thought I&#8217;d say this, but keep up the great work, Jack! And that brings me to my latest limerick: Chatty Jack By Madeleine Begun Kane Felon Jack has turned out to be chatty. Were he female, some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,49,20,48,6,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-humor","category-fbi-humor","category-gop-humor","category-jack-abramoff","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}