{"id":202,"date":"2008-03-13T18:01:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T01:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-03-13T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T01:01:17","slug":"the-left-wing-doesnt-know-what-the-right-is-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/the-left-wing-doesnt-know-what-the-right-is-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"The left wing doesn’t know what the right is doing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quiz time:<\/p>\n

To which party does disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer belong?<\/p>\n

If you don’t know, it’s not surprising. It’s not a secret, and most of the news articles *do* mention it, but it’s not in the headlines nor usually in the top three paragraphs.<\/p>\n

Hillary insists that our country has a “conservative media”. So since the media is obviously doing what they can to minimize party association, Eliot must be a Republican, right? Final answer?<\/p>\n

*bzzzzt!* He’s a Democrat.<\/p>\n

I can’t help but believe that if Eliot *wasn’t* a Democrat, every article in the world would have the word “Republican” in the first paragraph– if not the headline.<\/p>\n

“Conservative media”, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quiz time: To which party does disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer belong? If you don’t know, it’s not surprising. It’s not a secret, and most of the news articles *do* mention it, but it’s not in the headlines nor usually in the top three paragraphs. Hillary insists that our country has a “conservative media”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}