{"id":4453,"date":"2011-02-08T03:11:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T07:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2011-03-31T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:53:08","slug":"kristol-beck-feud-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/02\/08\/kristol-beck-feud-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Kristol Clear That Beck Is Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I, for one, am enjoying the Bill Kristol \/ Glenn Beck feud:<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week, Fox News’ Glenn Beck launched a week-long effort to explain developments in Egypt as only he can. The deranged media personality cooked up truly bizarre conspiracy theories — even by his standards…<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol, a Fox News contributor, had seen enough. “[H]ysteria is not a sign of health,” Kristol wrote in a new column. “When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now let’s face it — Glenn Beck’s behavior has to be pretty crazy for a neoconservative like Kristol to write that sort of critique. And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n

It’s Kristol Clear That Beck Is Nuts
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Bill Kristol said Beck’s gone too far,
\nWhich means Glenn’s scaled a very high bar.
\nCuz when Bill says enough<\/em>
\nTo a wingnut, that’s rough.
\nYes, Glenn’s sanity’s way under par.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I, for one, am enjoying the Bill Kristol \/ Glenn Beck feud: Last week, Fox News’ Glenn Beck launched a week-long effort to explain developments in Egypt as only he can. The deranged media personality cooked up truly bizarre conspiracy theories — even by his standards… Over the weekend, The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[174,585,633,26,6,7,3,1551,69],"tags":[859,1057,634,275,1493,1251,2784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453"}],"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=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4771,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}