{"id":889,"date":"2009-04-13T23:11:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T03:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=889"},"modified":"2009-08-27T18:27:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T22:27:23","slug":"fox-pundits-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/04\/13\/fox-pundits-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Pundits At Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News &#8220;pundit&#8221; rants always look foolish, especially when they&#8217;re packed with gleeful predictions of Democratic failures.   And most especially when their predictions turn out to be dramatically wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Such, thankfully, was the case with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykostv.com\/w\/001151\/\">loony rantings indulged in by Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck<\/a> and sundry Fox News personalities who &#8220;bet against the Obama administration\u2019s ability to rescue Richard Phillips, the American ship captain who was taken hostage by Somali pirates.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>How those Fox nuts salivated in anticipation of Obama&#8217;s failure!  And how disappointed they must surely be in the wake of Phillips&#8217; rescue after the Obama-authorized killing of three pirates.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, don&#8217;t expect any gracious apologies any time soon.  Do you?<\/p>\n<p>Fox Pundits At Sea (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s been tested and won.<br \/>\nThree pirates were killed with a gun.<br \/>\nNow will loons who foretold<br \/>\nThat he&#8217;d fail to be bold<br \/>\nSay they&#8217;re sorry, congrats, job well done?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News &#8220;pundit&#8221; rants always look foolish, especially when they&#8217;re packed with gleeful predictions of Democratic failures. And most especially when their predictions turn out to be dramatically wrong. Such, thankfully, was the case with the loony rantings indulged in by Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck and sundry Fox News personalities who &#8220;bet against the Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,41,585,633,26,519,154,6,7,3,576,133,69],"tags":[632,273,521,634,204,200,628,218,630,631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}