{"id":305815,"date":"2010-02-11T04:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=66514"},"modified":"2010-02-11T04:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T09:30:52","slug":"matlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/305815","title":{"rendered":"Matlock!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/11\/matlock-11\/broder-regularity-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/broder-regularity-102x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"broder regularity\" width=\"102\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-66515\" \/><\/a>David Broder, a man with his finger on the pulse of the American people and all around soothsayer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2007\/07\/the-highest-bro.html\">July 10, 1974 (paraphrase)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>What if the House didn&#8217;t impeach Nixon?  That would be pretty AWESOME!  Talk about political comebacks, Nixon&#8217;s the one!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nixon resigned in disgrace 30 days later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/15\/AR2007021501271.html\">February 16, 2007<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>\nPresident Bush is poised for a political comeback<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/10\/AR2010021002451.html\">regarding Sarah Palin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>\nThose who want to stop her will need more ammunition than deriding her habit of writing on her hand. The lady is good. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/10\/AR2010021004708.html\">same paper, same day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Although Palin is a tea party favorite, her potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey. Fifty-five percent of Americans have unfavorable views of her, while the percentage holding favorable views has dipped to 37, a new low in Post-ABC polling.<\/p>\n<p>There is a growing sense that the former Alaska governor is not qualified to serve as president, with<strong> more than seven in 10 Americans now saying she is unqualified, up from 60 percent in a November<\/strong> survey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As much as I enjoy deriding Broder and having a rich vein of material to work with, even I&#8217;m embarrassed for him.<\/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=66514&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_66514\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Broder, a man with his finger on the pulse of the American people and all around soothsayer: July 10, 1974 (paraphrase): What if the House didn&#8217;t impeach Nixon? That would be pretty AWESOME! Talk about political comebacks, Nixon&#8217;s the one! Nixon resigned in disgrace 30 days later. February 16, 2007: President Bush is poised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305815","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=305815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}