{"id":9409,"date":"2013-04-17T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T19:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9409"},"modified":"2013-04-17T19:46:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T23:46:41","slug":"steve-king-exploits-boston-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/04\/17\/steve-king-exploits-boston-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"King-Sized Exploitation (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Steve King (R&#8211;Iowa) is a perfect example of <a href=\"http:\/\/takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/16\/how-not-to-react-to-boston\/\">how NOT to react to the Boston bombings.<\/a> According to the fence and deportation-loving Steve King, the mere possibility that the bomber(s) might be foreign means that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/345691\/after-boston-congressman-urges-caution-immigration\">immigration reform should be delayed<\/a> and that reform could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/16\/steve-king-boston-bombings_n_3092929.html\">endanger the public<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>King-Sized Exploitation (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Give Steve King a terrific ovation<br \/>\nFor his masterful bomb exploitation:<br \/>\nIn the absence of facts,<br \/>\nHe conflates the attacks<br \/>\nWith immigration reform in our nation.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been anti-reform all along.<br \/>\nNow he sings a delay-reform song,<br \/>\nCuz the bomber, he claims,<br \/>\nMight be foreign. He aims<br \/>\nTo spread terror himself &#8212; that&#8217;s so wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Steve King (R&#8211;Iowa) is a perfect example of how NOT to react to the Boston bombings. According to the fence and deportation-loving Steve King, the mere possibility that the bomber(s) might be foreign means that immigration reform should be delayed and that reform could endanger the public. King-Sized Exploitation (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2354,2318,6,7,3,9,2353,27],"tags":[2355,2356,2357,2358,2919,1723,857,2918,2766],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gop-humor","category-immigration-reform","category-iowa-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-steve-king","category-terrorism","tag-boston","tag-boston-bombings","tag-boston-marathon","tag-boston-marathon-attack","tag-immigration-reform","tag-iowa","tag-massachusetts","tag-steve-king","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","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=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9437,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions\/9437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}