{"id":6995,"date":"2012-04-18T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2012-04-18T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:33:08","slug":"ann-romney-fake-victimhood-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/04\/18\/ann-romney-fake-victimhood-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Yet Another Romney Phony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the overblown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/04\/17\/mitt-ann-romney-stay-at-home-moms-humor\/\">Hilary Rosen stay-at-home moms controversy?<\/a> We now know that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/221575-ann-romney-calls-hilary-rosen-flap-an-early-birthday-present\">Ann Romney was just pretending to feel victimized<\/a> by Rosen&#8217;s remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ann Romney, the wife of GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, told supporters at a private fundraising event on Sunday that last week\u2019s Hilary Rosen controversy was an \u201cearly birthday present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my early birthday present for someone to be critical of me as a mother,\u201d she said. \u201cThat was a really defining moment, and I loved it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, to quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/18\/opinion\/dowd-phony-mommy-wars.html\">Maureen Dowd,<\/a> Ann Romney &#8220;was feigning aggrievement to milk the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s important when you act the martyr not to overplay your hand. If you admit out loud to a bunch of people \u2014 including Haake, who was on the sidewalk enterprisingly eavesdropping \u2014 that you\u2019re just pretending to be offended, you risk looking phony, like your husband.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Yet Another Romney Phony<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Ann, when  pretending  you&#8217;re hurt<br \/>\nBy an &#8220;insult&#8221; it&#8217;s best not to blurt<br \/>\nThat the &#8220;diss&#8221; was a gift&#8212;<br \/>\nThat you&#8217;re not really miffed,<br \/>\nLest  you swiftly your image subvert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the overblown Hilary Rosen stay-at-home moms controversy? We now know that Ann Romney was just pretending to feel victimized by Rosen&#8217;s remarks: Ann Romney, the wife of GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, told supporters at a private fundraising event on Sunday that last week\u2019s Hilary Rosen controversy was an \u201cearly birthday present.\u201d \u201cIt was my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,159,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[1863,2786,2764,2801,1408,1930,1250,429,841,1933,1934,1931,1935],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995"}],"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=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}