{"id":245554,"date":"2010-01-29T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64174"},"modified":"2010-01-29T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T12:48:18","slug":"early-morning-swim-karl-rove-rudy-guiliani-racist-white-guys-%e2%80%94-worst-persons-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/245554","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Karl Rove, Rudy Guiliani, Racist White Guys \u2014 Worst Persons in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"350\" height=\"283\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-9inShVmXoE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-9inShVmXoE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"283\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Shorter wingnuts: <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/28\/rove-reagan-weak\/\">leave W. alone!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Conservatives, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,583593,00.html\">often complain<\/a> that Obama blames former President George W. Bush too much, did not appreciate Obama\u2019s recitation of the facts. \u201cThe blaming of the past administration is <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YWZlN2VlZDIyYzUwMjg2MGU1OTNkOTViODc4ZTY4NWM=\">pathetically unpresidential<\/a>,\u201d blogged National Review\u2019s Kathryn Jean Lopez last night. On Fox News this morning, Brian Kilmeade asked former Bush adviser Karl Rove if it\u2019s \u201cgood politics\u201d to \u201cbring up your predecessor and talk about your first year in office while looking back at his last year in office?\u201d \u201cNo, I think it makes you look weak,\u201d replied Rove.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, these little tirades have nothing whatsoever to do with Obama&#8217;s speech. To wingnuts, all Democrats are always &#8220;pathetically unpresidential&#8221; and &#8220;weak.&#8221; The speech was just an excuse to say so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64174&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_64174\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorter wingnuts: leave W. alone! Conservatives, who often complain that Obama blames former President George W. Bush too much, did not appreciate Obama\u2019s recitation of the facts. \u201cThe blaming of the past administration is pathetically unpresidential,\u201d blogged National Review\u2019s Kathryn Jean Lopez last night. On Fox News this morning, Brian Kilmeade asked former Bush adviser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}