{"id":5592,"date":"2011-09-25T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2011-09-25T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T21:55:18","slug":"liberal-press-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/09\/25\/liberal-press-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"The So-Called Liberal Media Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen points us to yet another example of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal\/2011_09\/who_decided_to_pick_a_fight032412.php\">media blaming the wrong political party.<\/a> According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/partisanship-flares-again-thwarts-passage-of-stopgap-funding-bill\/2011\/09\/23\/gIQA2jPmrK_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, the Democrats, in resisting Republican precedent-changing demands for FEMA disaster relief offsets,  was starting a &#8220;fight over a side issue:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Democrats decided to pick a fight over a side issue: an insistence by the GOP to pay for more disaster relief funding by cutting a popular auto-industry loan program. Republicans refused to back down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let me get this straight: Republicans try to change the rules, thereby holding disaster victims hostage &#8230; and it&#8217;s the Democrats&#8217; fault?<\/p>\n<p>This calls for two poems: a limerick and a tanka:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Washington Post, you are wrong<br \/>\nWith your <em>Democrats started it<\/em> song.<br \/>\nDisaster relief<br \/>\nIs the cause of this beef.<br \/>\nGive those offset demands a loud gong.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Republican pols<br \/>\nDemand FEMA fund offsets&#8212;<br \/>\nHold victims hostage,<br \/>\nWhile &#8220;liberal media&#8221;<br \/>\nBlames Dems for starting the fight.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen points us to yet another example of the media blaming the wrong political party. According to the Washington Post, the Democrats, in resisting Republican precedent-changing demands for FEMA disaster relief offsets, was starting a &#8220;fight over a side issue:&#8221; But Democrats decided to pick a fight over a side issue: an insistence by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114,1186,26,1193,6,9],"tags":[2774,500,1671,1653,1574,275,1670,1672,702,834,1322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592"}],"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=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}