{"id":5910,"date":"2011-12-07T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2011-12-08T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:26:42","slug":"trump-debate-moderator-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/12\/07\/trump-debate-moderator-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The Immoderate Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Trump-moderated Republican debate?  Even <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/197109-rove-says-rnc-should-discourage-trump-moderated-debate\">Karl Rove<\/a> says it&#8217;s a terrible idea. <\/p>\n<p>Damn! Me &#8212; agreeing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/category\/karl-rove\/\">Karl Rove.<\/a>  That&#8217;s seriously scary!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mitt Romney did the classy thing, for once, adding his name to the list of candidates who&#8217;ve declined the Trump Debate Invite.  So far, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/06\/romney-latest-candidate-to-say-no-to-trump\/\">Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, and Romney<\/a> have declined to participate, while Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have accepted.  <\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The Immoderate Donald Trump<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Debate moderation&#8217;s an art,<br \/>\nAnd practitioners need to be smart,<br \/>\nDiplomatic, well versed&#8212;<br \/>\nIn the topic immersed.<br \/>\nDonald Trump? Not just bad.  Off the chart!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Republican National Committee Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1211\/70074.html#ixzz1fyba1i00\">Reince Priebus has come out against the Donald Trump debate,<\/a> citing as his reason Trump&#8217;s ongoing flirtation with an independent run for president.  Additionally <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/08\/perry-passes-on-trump-debate\/\">Perry has now declined his debate invitation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Trump-moderated Republican debate? Even Karl Rove says it&#8217;s a terrible idea. Damn! Me &#8212; agreeing with Karl Rove. That&#8217;s seriously scary! Meanwhile, Mitt Romney did the classy thing, for once, adding his name to the list of candidates who&#8217;ve declined the Trump Debate Invite. So far, Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, and Romney have declined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,124,1550,21,20,1607,57,126,519,6,7,3,9,635,1221,1565],"tags":[192,325,2897,194,2900,2778,1250,729,395,2907,1613,2845,2877,291,2898],"class_list":["post-5910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-debate-humor","category-donald-trump","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-jon-huntsman","category-karl-rove","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-rick-perry","category-rick-santorum","category-ron-paul","tag-campaign-satire","tag-debate-limerick","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-humor","tag-jon-huntsman","tag-karl-rove","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-presidential-debate","tag-reince-priebus","tag-republican-debate","tag-rick-perry","tag-rick-santorum","tag-rnc","tag-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","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=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5923,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}