{"id":338825,"date":"2010-02-19T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=67976"},"modified":"2010-02-19T07:49:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:49:20","slug":"early-morning-swim-marsha-blackburn-glenn-beck-ann-coulter-not-worst-persons-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/338825","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Marsha Blackburn, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter Not 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\/dDcyI4veM2w&#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\/dDcyI4veM2w&#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>It really does all come down to pissing off liberals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/18\/marsha-blackburn-says-being-olbermanns-worst-perso\/\">with this crowd.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is using her call out as MSNBC host Keith Olbermann\u2019s \u201cWorst Person in the World\u201d as a fundraising draw, saying she\u2019s wearing it \u201clike I\u2019ve won a gold medal at the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olbermann, well-known for his occasional \u201cworst person\u201d attacks, singled out Blackburn for her continued interest in permitting young people to privatize their Social Security contributions. He suggested the plan would allow young people to \u201cget wiped out the next time the mortgage industry or some other form of legalized gambling wipes out a chunk of the economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why run on your legislative record, and what you&#8217;ve done for the people of your district?<\/p>\n<p>Much better to run against that there teevee man, who says mean things about conservatives.<\/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=67976&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_67976\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really does all come down to pissing off liberals with this crowd. U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is using her call out as MSNBC host Keith Olbermann\u2019s \u201cWorst Person in the World\u201d as a fundraising draw, saying she\u2019s wearing it \u201clike I\u2019ve won a gold medal at the Olympics.\u201d Olbermann, well-known for his occasional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338825","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\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}