{"id":753,"date":"2009-03-13T01:44:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T05:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=753"},"modified":"2009-03-16T00:47:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:47:47","slug":"ari-fleischer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/03\/13\/ari-fleischer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Ari Fleischer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stream of deceit that came pouring out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/11\/ari-fleischer-battles-chr_n_174082.html\">Ari Fleischer&#8217;s belligerent mouth during his Chris Matthews&#8217;<\/a> interview must surely have set some sort of record.  And his calling Matthews&#8217; &#8220;shameful&#8221; gives new meaning to the word chutzpah.  Then, of course, there&#8217;s the 9\/11 lie: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fleischer: &#8220;After September 11th having been hit once how could we take a chance that Saddam might strike again? And that&#8217;s the threat that has been removed and I think we are all safer with that threat removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matthews: &#8220;I&#8217;m proud that we no longer have an administration that uses that kind argument&#8230;and the American people are too.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To Ari Fleischer<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Ari, your lies just keep flying.<br \/>\nBut sorry, we still are not buying.<br \/>\nThat nine-one-one hit<br \/>\nWas not Saddam, you twit!<br \/>\nAnd to say so is shameful. Stop lying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stream of deceit that came pouring out of Ari Fleischer&#8217;s belligerent mouth during his Chris Matthews&#8217; interview must surely have set some sort of record. And his calling Matthews&#8217; &#8220;shameful&#8221; gives new meaning to the word chutzpah. Then, of course, there&#8217;s the 9\/11 lie: Fleischer: &#8220;After September 11th having been hit once how could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,103,546,159,26,154,6,7,3,550],"tags":[2795,2839,547,337,548,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}