{"id":5769,"date":"2011-11-21T16:53:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2011-11-22T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T00:14:57","slug":"supercommittee-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/11\/21\/supercommittee-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The Not-So-Super Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/budget\/194827-boehner-blames-obama-for-supercommittees-failure\">blame game<\/a> is going <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/21\/opinion\/gergen-reckless-congress\/index.html\">strong<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal\/2011_11\/false_equivalencies_are_the_re033665.php\">customary false equivalencies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The Not-So-Super Committee<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Super Committee&#8217;s derailed,<br \/>\nAnd now we are being regaled<br \/>\nWith tales blaming Dems<br \/>\nSold as &#8220;media gems.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s &#8220;balanced&#8221; reporting that&#8217;s failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blame game is going strong with the customary false equivalencies. Limerick Ode To The Not-So-Super Committee By Madeleine Begun Kane The Super Committee&#8217;s derailed, And now we are being regaled With tales blaming Dems Sold as &#8220;media gems.&#8221; It&#8217;s &#8220;balanced&#8221; reporting that&#8217;s failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,44,20,11,26,1193,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[2774,1516,390,1562,386,1574,489,476,275,702,535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769"}],"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=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5778,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions\/5778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}