{"id":6578,"date":"2012-02-22T19:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2012-02-26T03:49:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T07:49:01","slug":"frank-luntz-tasteless-obama-assassination-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/02\/22\/frank-luntz-tasteless-obama-assassination-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Luntz&#8217;s Killer Of A Joke (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If any Republican operative should know not to joke about killing President Obama, it&#8217;s pollster\/wordsmith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/at-santorum-rally-fox-news-analyst-frank-luntz-jokes-about-running-president-obama-over\/\">Frank Luntz<\/a>.  And yet that&#8217;s precisely what he did:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you think the race for the Republican presidential nomination has been ugly, you\u2019re right. However, a recent joke by Republican pollster and Fox News analyst Frank Luntz indicates that the general election promises to be even uglier. Warming up a crowd at a Rick Santorum campaign event Monday night, Luntz cracked, \u201cI have a \u2018Run, Barack, Run\u2019 bumper sticker, but I put it on the front of my car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Rachel Maddow&#8217;s story on this, including <a href=\"http:\/\/video.app.msn.com\/watch\/video\/luntz-jokes-about-hitting-obama-with-car\/6tqbtm1\">the video of Luntz&#8217;s running-President-Obama-over joke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Luntz&#8217;s Killer Of A Joke (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Republican messaging czar<br \/>\nIs an expert at framing &#8212; a star.<br \/>\nYet he loves to tee-hee<br \/>\nThat Obama must flee,<br \/>\nOr be struck by a GOP car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If any Republican operative should know not to joke about killing President Obama, it&#8217;s pollster\/wordsmith Frank Luntz. And yet that&#8217;s precisely what he did: If you think the race for the Republican presidential nomination has been ugly, you\u2019re right. However, a recent joke by Republican pollster and Fox News analyst Frank Luntz indicates that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[742,95,21,585,1831,20,150,6,1120,7,3,9,1221,184],"tags":[1837,2792,2786,2764,278,1247,2913,1836,1832,1835,2811,1834,2877,1838,1833],"class_list":["post-6578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobiles-satire","category-barack-obama","category-election-satire","category-fox-news-humor","category-frank-luntz","category-gop-humor","category-political-jokes-one-liners","category-political-limericks","category-political-speeches","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-rick-santorum","category-rnc-humor","tag-assassination-jokes","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign-humor","tag-election-satire","tag-fox-news","tag-framing-humor","tag-frank-luntz","tag-political-bumper-stickers","tag-political-messaging","tag-pollsters","tag-rachel-maddow","tag-republican-operatives","tag-rick-santorum","tag-run-barack-run","tag-tasteless-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","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=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}