{"id":4855,"date":"2011-04-12T23:13:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T03:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2011-04-12T23:13:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T03:13:38","slug":"ryan-budget-fraud-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/04\/12\/ryan-budget-fraud-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The Math-Challenged Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ryan&#8217;s budget plan is both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2011_04\/028907.php\">radical<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/10\/a-word-from-those-who\/\">fraudulent<\/a>. But that doesn&#8217;t prevent an astounding number of journalists (who presumably count with their fingers) from treating it with respect and referring to it as &#8220;serious&#8221; and &#8220;bold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The Math-Challenged Media<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The math-challenged journos who laud<br \/>\nRyan&#8217;s radical plan and applaud,<br \/>\nSay it&#8217;s &#8220;serious,&#8221; &#8220;bold,&#8221;<br \/>\nBut his plan has no hold<br \/>\nOn reality &#8212; naught but a fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ryan&#8217;s budget plan is both radical and fraudulent. But that doesn&#8217;t prevent an astounding number of journalists (who presumably count with their fingers) from treating it with respect and referring to it as &#8220;serious&#8221; and &#8220;bold.&#8221; Limerick Ode To The Math-Challenged Media By Madeleine Begun Kane The math-challenged journos who laud Ryan&#8217;s radical plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114,14,11,26,1481,6,9],"tags":[523,1516,396,1495,1564,275,2891,609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855"}],"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=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}