{"id":7586,"date":"2012-08-01T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2012-09-08T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T19:56:16","slug":"mitt-romney-foreign-gaffes-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/08\/01\/mitt-romney-foreign-gaffes-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Mitt “Foreign Fumbler” Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney’s image-bolstering<\/em> trip to Great Britain, Israel, and Poland was jam-packed with gaffes. Yet according to Mitt, none of this is his fault<\/a>: The biased media’s to blame<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But as Maddowblog’s<\/a> Steve Benen puts it:<\/p>\n

…it wasn’t news organizations’ fault when he insulted the British; it wasn’t news organizations’ fault when he misquoted the Australian finance minister; it wasn’t news organizations’ fault when his campaign kinda sorta gave the green light on a unilateral strike on Iran; it wasn’t news organizations’ fault when he used borderline-racist language at his Israeli fundraiser; it wasn’t news organizations’ fault when he praised a socialized health care system he claims to abhor; and it wasn’t news organizations’ fault when his press secretary said, “Kiss my ass. This is a Holy site.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Limerick Ode To Mitt “Foreign Fumbler” Romney
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney’s big trip. Oy Gevalt!
\nA tri-country gaffe-filled assault:
\nPoland, Israel, Great Britain—
\nStill reeling from Mitten.
\nBut of course it’s the “media’s fault.”<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Cool news! KPCC’s Patt Morrison announced the results of her political limerick contest on her show and here<\/a>. The two winning limericks are the one I posted above and one by Mason Kroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney’s image-bolstering trip to Great Britain, Israel, and Poland was jam-packed with gaffes. Yet according to Mitt, none of this is his fault: The biased media’s to blame. But as Maddowblog’s Steve Benen puts it: …it wasn’t news organizations’ fault when he insulted the British; it wasn’t news organizations’ fault when he misquoted the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,38,20,26,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2786,194,2771,1783,1992,2049,275,1250,2050],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586"}],"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=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7856,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}