{"id":5264,"date":"2012-04-26T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2012-04-26T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:50:30","slug":"aha-and-you-thought-i-was-joking-gop-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/aha-and-you-thought-i-was-joking-gop-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Aha!  And you thought I was JOKING! (Gop-Spin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked you to <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2012\/04\/25\/gop-spin-the-barack-ness-monster\/\">parody the GOP response to President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Slow Jam&#8221; of the news<\/a>, as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/category\/gop-spin\/\">GOP-Spin game<\/a> here on The X Blog. And you laughed!  I know, I didn&#8217;t see or year you laugh, but I know you were laughing! <\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that the GOP was rather put off by the thing, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201204250028\">Media Matters<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/04\/26\/11409031-the-gop-objects-to-obamas-slow-jam?lite\">brought to my attention by Steve Benen at the Maddowblog<\/a>.    <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Fox News has responded to President Obama&#8217;s appearance on NBC&#8217;s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon by suggesting that Obama is somehow denigrating the office of the presidency. For instance, today on Fox &#038; Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson said that it&#8217;s &#8220;nutso&#8221; for Obama to go on &#8220;these comedy shows&#8221; because it &#8220;lowers the status of the office.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, George Bush on Deal or No Deal and Richard Nixon on Laugh-In were OK, but Obama on Jimmy Fallon was wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Can someone please &#8216;splain this to me????  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked you to parody the GOP response to President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Slow Jam&#8221; of the news, as part of the GOP-Spin game here on The X Blog. And you laughed! I know, I didn&#8217;t see or year you laugh, but I know you were laughing! Well, it turns out that the GOP was rather put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/aha-and-you-thought-i-was-joking-gop-spin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aha!  And you thought I was JOKING! (Gop-Spin)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[289],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1mU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}