{"id":7067,"date":"2012-05-03T18:13:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T22:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2012-05-03T18:13:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T22:13:42","slug":"mitt-romney-richard-grenell-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/05\/03\/mitt-romney-richard-grenell-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney&#8217;s Grenell Gaffe (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can&#8217;t be easy to simultaneously piss off liberals, conservatives, gays, and homophobes.  But Mitt Romney managed to do it.<\/p>\n<p>How?  By hiring and (under pressure from anti-gay conservatives) speedily <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2012\/05\/03\/475950\/romney-campaign-misled-reporters-grenell\/\">muzzling and forcing out<\/a> his openly gay, misogynistic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/03\/us\/politics\/richard-grenell-resigns-from-mitt-romneys-foreign-policy-team.html\">wingnutty foreign policy spokesman Ric Grenell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney&#8217;s Grenell Gaffe (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney would love to dispel<br \/>\nHis panicked farewell to Grenell:<br \/>\nBigots bitched, so he jumped &#8212;<br \/>\nHis gay spokesman, he dumped,<br \/>\nSelling out at alarm bells, pell-mell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can&#8217;t be easy to simultaneously piss off liberals, conservatives, gays, and homophobes. But Mitt Romney managed to do it. How? By hiring and (under pressure from anti-gay conservatives) speedily muzzling and forcing out his openly gay, misogynistic, wingnutty foreign policy spokesman Ric Grenell. Mitt Romney&#8217;s Grenell Gaffe (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Mitt Romney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,38,640,20,68,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[1944,2786,2764,2771,774,1943,1250,1942],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067"}],"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=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7080,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}