{"id":41087,"date":"2014-01-13T07:15:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T13:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41087"},"modified":"2014-01-13T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T13:20:00","slug":"with-enemies-like-this-who-needs-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41087","title":{"rendered":"With Enemies Like This, Who Needs Enemies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Christie &#8211; who has stared down mobsters and the New Jersey teachers union, pardon the redundancy, and who issued a denial of knowledge last week of his staff&#8217;s alleged shenanigans that is tailor-made to backfire if he\u00a0<em>does\u00a0<\/em>happen to be lying &#8211; has come under attack by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Gail Collins of the <em>NYTimes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A woman who recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29223\">argued against<\/a> her colleagues&#8217; sending their good-for-nothing kids who&#8217;d been camping in their parents&#8217; basements since graduating from Bard College with degrees in Victimization Studies to North Dakota to earn their keep in the oil fields because of the forty minute lines at McDonalds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not actually going to ask you to read Gail Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Merely to note that the fact that Gail Collins has written about Chris Christie should be treated as a point for the defense.<\/p>\n<p>Sort of like Nick Coleman. \u00a0Only at least Nick Coleman isn&#8217;t at the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Christie &#8211; who has stared down mobsters and the New Jersey teachers union, pardon the redundancy, and who issued a denial of knowledge last week of his staff&#8217;s alleged shenanigans that is tailor-made to backfire if he\u00a0does\u00a0happen to be lying &#8211; has come under attack by&#8230; &#8230;Gail Collins of the NYTimes. A woman who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,130,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-tc-media-bias","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41087","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=41087"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41097,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41087\/revisions\/41097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}