{"id":847,"date":"2009-03-25T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=847"},"modified":"2009-03-25T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:28:10","slug":"ron-fournier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/03\/25\/ron-fournier\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To AP&#8217;s Ron Fournier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After President Obama&#8217;s outstanding performance during his second primetime press conference, the AP&#8217;s Ron Fournier had some column inches to fill.  So, what <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/407252\/ap-wingnut-also-concerned-about-teleprompter-usage\">words of wisdom<\/a> did he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/25\/aps-ron-fournier-concerne_n_179154.html\">share in his &#8220;news analysis?&#8221;<\/a> Obama really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=12469\">&#8220;likes to have [his words] up on the Teleprompter.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How nice to know we can count on Fournier to perpetuate the  &#8220;Obama can&#8217;t talk without his Teleprompter crutch&#8221; rubbish.  Apparently, poor Ron can&#8217;t write without a nonsensical meme:  <\/p>\n<p>Ode To Ron Fournier (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Ron, you have nothing to say.<br \/>\nBut, alas, you&#8217;re on deadline today.<br \/>\nJust continue a meme<br \/>\nLike that lame prompter theme.<br \/>\nMaybe someday you&#8217;ll merit your pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After President Obama&#8217;s outstanding performance during his second primetime press conference, the AP&#8217;s Ron Fournier had some column inches to fill. So, what words of wisdom did he share in his &#8220;news analysis?&#8221; Obama really &#8220;likes to have [his words] up on the Teleprompter.&#8221; How nice to know we can count on Fournier to perpetuate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[599,95,26,154,6,7,3,98,598,576],"tags":[604,603,204,602,605,200,600,2843,601,220],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ap-humor","category-barack-obama","category-media-satire","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-press-conferences","category-ron-fournier","category-television-tv-satire","tag-ap","tag-deadlines","tag-media","tag-memes","tag-news-conference","tag-obama","tag-press-conference","tag-ron-fournier","tag-teleprompter","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}