{"id":325304,"date":"2010-02-16T04:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=67481"},"modified":"2010-02-16T04:30:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T09:30:50","slug":"please-excuse-me-but-i%e2%80%99m-paid-to-just-write-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/325304","title":{"rendered":"Please excuse me, but I\u2019m paid to just write crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_67482\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 115px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/16\/please-excuse-me-but-im-paid-to-just-write-crap\/bayh\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67482\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/bayh.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bayh\" width=\"105\" height=\"135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">If he can wink, he might be a match for Palin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apparently, in between Broder columns and Palin Op-Eds the <em>Washington Post<\/em> has just given up trying to live in our reality and moved in with much of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2010\/02\/15\/good-christ-almighty\/\">New Republic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For example,<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/postpartisan\/2010\/02\/evan_bayh.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">Charles Lane<\/a>, on Evan Bayh&#8217;s departure from the Senate:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Quitting the Senate was a no-lose move for the presidentially ambitious Bayh, since he can now crawl away from the political wreckage for a couple of years, plausibly alleging that he tried to steer the party in a different direction &#8212; and then be perfectly positioned to mount a centrist primary challenge to Obama in 2012, depending on circumstances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, right Charles, a Democratic primary challenge to Obama from &#8220;the right&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;depending on the circumstances&#8221; &#8212; probably the same kind of &#8220;circumstances&#8221; that could deliver you a Pulitzer Prize.<\/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=67481&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_67481\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he can wink, he might be a match for Palin Apparently, in between Broder columns and Palin Op-Eds the Washington Post has just given up trying to live in our reality and moved in with much of the New Republic. For example,Charles Lane, on Evan Bayh&#8217;s departure from the Senate: Quitting the Senate was [&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-325304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325304","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=325304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}