{"id":2660,"date":"2002-12-16T22:47:39","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T05:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/12\/tasty-scandal\/"},"modified":"2002-12-16T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2002-12-17T05:47:39","slug":"tasty-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/16\/tasty-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasty scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAs political scandals go, the Lott affair pales in comparison to Cheriegate, <a title=\"Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | The national crisis, day 14\" href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/cherie\/story\/0,12713,859899,00.html\">the national crisis<\/a> of Great Britain:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As Tony Blair tries to concentrate on the day job, a new episode in the saga of faxes, tapes and tabloids unfolds. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Brit scandal features an Australian conman trying to extort a residency visa out of Tony Blair with tabloid trash about his topless model girlfriend taking steamy showers with Blair&#8217;s wife. Those folks really know how to entertain the masses, but all our politicians can come up with is guilt, humiliation, and contrition over a bad joke.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s good to know that Lott believes in Affirmative Action all the way. What a man!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As political scandals go, the Lott affair pales in comparison to Cheriegate, the national crisis of Great Britain: As Tony Blair tries to concentrate on the day job, a new episode in the saga of faxes, tapes and tabloids unfolds. The Brit scandal features an Australian conman trying to extort a residency visa out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/16\/tasty-scandal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tasty scandal&#8221;<\/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-2660","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-GU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","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=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}