{"id":888,"date":"2002-08-15T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2002-08-15T18:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/blogger-bakes-mckinney\/"},"modified":"2002-08-15T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2002-08-15T18:27:40","slug":"blogger-bakes-mckinney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/15\/blogger-bakes-mckinney\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger bakes McKinney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110002124\">Best of the Web<\/a>, kudos to Scott Koenig:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A10364-2002Aug12.html\">Better Late Than Never<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The reelection campaign of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) has received campaign contributions from at least 18 donors who are either officers of Muslim foundations under investigation by the FBI, have voiced support for Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist organizations or have made inflammatory statements about Jews,&#8221; the Washington Post reports. The Post&#8217;s Thomas Edsall notes that &#8220;local media outlets,&#8221; including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, have covered the story, but he doesn&#8217;t credit blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koenighaus.net\/indepundit\/archives\/000796.html#000796\">Scott Koenig<\/a>, who actually broke it two days ahead of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessatlanta.com\/ajc\/metro\/0802\/03mcmoney.html\">AJC<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While some bloggers do meaningful research that has a direct effect on elections, others muse about returning to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccablood.net\/archive\/2002\/08.html#12endoftheworld\">agrarian past<\/a>, only to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/003047.php#003047\">corrected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Mrs. Bennett asks if Blood is a moron, an idiot, or a wanker. Vote in the comments. (clue: agrarian life was no picnic, even if you like turnips a whole lot.)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Best of the Web, kudos to Scott Koenig: Better Late Than Never &#8220;The reelection campaign of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) has received campaign contributions from at least 18 donors who are either officers of Muslim foundations under investigation by the FBI, have voiced support for Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist organizations or have made inflammatory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/15\/blogger-bakes-mckinney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blogger bakes McKinney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-888","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-ek","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}