{"id":63149,"date":"2017-05-16T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63149"},"modified":"2017-05-16T07:19:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:19:07","slug":"it-is-to-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63149","title":{"rendered":"It Is To Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had forgotten how carefully Liberals at the New York Times scrutinized President Obama\u2019s nominees to the federal bench, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-lower-court-nominees-conservatives.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=1\">to avoid politicizing the judiciary.<\/a>\u00a0 I\u2019m sure they did, right?\u00a0 Because if not, if they\u2019re only worried about it when The Other Side does it, then it\u2019s not a matter of high moral principle, it\u2019s a matter of hypocritical partisanship, and that doesn\u2019t bother me at all.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe Joe&#8217;s got it figured out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I had forgotten how carefully Liberals at the New York Times scrutinized President Obama\u2019s nominees to the federal bench, to avoid politicizing the judiciary.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure they did, right?\u00a0 Because if not, if they\u2019re only worried about it when The Other Side does it, then it\u2019s not a matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149","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=63149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63150,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149\/revisions\/63150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}