{"id":29266,"date":"2012-07-30T08:06:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T13:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29266"},"modified":"2012-07-30T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T13:07:34","slug":"its-the-only-teapot-they-can-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29266","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The Only Teapot They Can Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats, with the aid of Fleet Street, ginned up a phony controversy last week, after Mitt Romney speculated out loud that maybe the Brits weren&#8217;t ready for the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Impolitic? \u00a0Perhaps (although not on the order of stashing the Churchill bust under a bag of oily rags in a White House storage locker).<\/p>\n<p>But wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit 1: \u00a0Noted Conservative Tool Piers Morgan points out that everyone in the UK was saying the same thing before the Olympics:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?content=9DL9N327H4R79P3D&amp;layout=&amp;content_type=content_item&amp;playlist_cid=&amp;media_type=video&amp;read_more=1&amp;widget_type_cid=svp\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"420\" height=\"421\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Exhibits 2 through (TBD): The Brits prove Romney, and Morgan, correct <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2180579\/Olympics-2012-Row-row-seats--tickets-sent-foreign-VIPs-black-market.html\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/news\/9437641\/Olympic-seats-row-parents-of-athletes-turned-away-from-Aquatics-Centre-in-confusion-over-London-2012-tickets.html\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/07\/29\/us-oly-emptyseats-day-idUSBRE86S0PF20120729\">over<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p>In related news: \u00a0A poll of 10,000 random Americans shows that Romney&#8217;s off-handed remarks about the London Olympics are more important to them than unemployment, the gathering double-dip recession, and the avalanche of debt about to inundate this country.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No, not really.<\/p>\n<p>But the Dems and the Praetorian Guard (<em>nee <\/em>the Media) are going to do their best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats, with the aid of Fleet Street, ginned up a phony controversy last week, after Mitt Romney speculated out loud that maybe the Brits weren&#8217;t ready for the Olympics. Impolitic? \u00a0Perhaps (although not on the order of stashing the Churchill bust under a bag of oily rags in a White House storage locker). But wrong? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29270,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29266\/revisions\/29270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}