{"id":3193,"date":"2005-04-02T03:15:23","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T11:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/04\/02\/the-ghoulies\/"},"modified":"2005-04-02T03:15:23","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T11:15:23","slug":"the-ghoulies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/the-ghoulies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghoulies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI don&#8217;t often agree with James Wolcott, or even find him tolerable. But he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jameswolcott.com\/archives\/2005\/03\/the_ghoulies.php\">right about Scarborough:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Joe Scarborough is just a symptom, a noisy, ignorant, pimply symptom to be sure, but still. The real malefactors are the men in executive suits and suites who put such a bozo on the air and allow him to plant his shoes on the dying body of Terri Schiavo and use her as a political soapbox and religious pulpit. It&#8217;s conservatives who are dehydrating her, draining every last drop of dignity from her death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2005\/03\/26.html#a2155\">this video clip<\/a> of Hitchens telling Joe where to get off.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t often agree with James Wolcott, or even find him tolerable. But he&#8217;s right about Scarborough: Joe Scarborough is just a symptom, a noisy, ignorant, pimply symptom to be sure, but still. The real malefactors are the men in executive suits and suites who put such a bozo on the air and allow him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/the-ghoulies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ghoulies&#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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Pv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","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=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}