{"id":134,"date":"2002-02-12T15:45:25","date_gmt":"2002-02-12T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/riordan-strikes-back\/"},"modified":"2002-02-12T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2002-02-12T22:45:25","slug":"riordan-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/12\/riordan-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Riordan strikes back:"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t| KEN . LAYNE . DOT . CON |<\/a><\/p>\n

\nHo ho … Riordan finally hit back. The Channel 2 news just had a commercial explaining the former LA mayor’s position on abortion — he doesn’t like it, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t support a woman’s right to do whatever — and letting the Home Viewer know just how much Gray “Singapore” Davis took from Enron: $119,000. Jeez, Ashcroft only took half of that. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a story I’ve been following, but leave it to the Bloggers to cover it when the media aren’t. I found no mention of Riordan’s response in the political press, but here it is. <\/p>\n

Riordan’s response is cool, well-timed, and effective. Davis is just trying to jerk his chain into saying something intemperate, because Riordan has the reputation for being off-the-cuff. But he took Davis’ bait and made him eat it, which is the right way to handle the little dictator.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

| KEN . LAYNE . DOT . CON | Ho ho … Riordan finally hit back. The Channel 2 news just had a commercial explaining the former LA mayor’s position on abortion — he doesn’t like it, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t support a woman’s right to do whatever — and letting the Home … Continue reading “Riordan strikes back:”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-2a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}