{"id":82722,"date":"2022-07-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82722"},"modified":"2022-07-06T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T04:14:32","slug":"breaking-news-breaking-wind-from-seven-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82722","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News (Breaking Wind) From Seven Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/09\/10\/the-amazing-honesty-of-joe-biden\/\">Deep thoughts from Chris Cillizza<\/a>, circa 2015:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Joe Biden&#8217;s unique trait as a politician is &#8212; and always has been &#8212; his honesty. Sometimes that honesty gets him into varying degrees of trouble. Sometimes it makes it seem as though he&#8217;s the closest thing to a real person you could possibly hope for in politics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This didn&#8217;t age too well, now did it? I can&#8217;t prove Cillizza&#8217;s childhood nickname wasn&#8217;t Corn Pop, or that he wasn&#8217;t at some point a classmate of Biden&#8217;s at the Naval Academy, but it&#8217;s a useful reminder that our betters have been carrying water for Ol&#8217; Joe for a very long time now. There was more:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Joe Biden on display with Colbert is the person who has inspired remarkable loyalty &#8212; over decades &#8212; from a tightknit group of staffers who would form the core of his presidential brain trust if he decided to run in 2016. It&#8217;s the guy who, for a time in 1987, was one of the front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination. It&#8217;s who Barack Obama saw when he decided to pick Biden as his vice president in 2008.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>1987. Do you remember why Biden fell from grace all those years ago? I suppose you could ask Neil Kinnock, whose speech Biden plagiarized. You could ask <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/08\/14\/obama-biden-relationship-393570\">Barack Obama:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One Democrat who spoke to Obama recalled the former president warning, \u201cDon\u2019t underestimate Joe\u2019s ability to fuck things up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After the last 18 months, no one seriously doubts The Leader of the Free World&#8217;s ability in that realm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep thoughts from Chris Cillizza, circa 2015: Joe Biden&#8217;s unique trait as a politician is &#8212; and always has been &#8212; his honesty. Sometimes that honesty gets him into varying degrees of trouble. Sometimes it makes it seem as though he&#8217;s the closest thing to a real person you could possibly hope for in politics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[449,434,421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-go-brandon","category-mr-d","category-snappy-answers-to-casual-gaslighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82722","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\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82723,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82722\/revisions\/82723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}