{"id":220,"date":"2012-03-16T23:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=220"},"modified":"2012-03-16T23:12:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T05:12:31","slug":"sometimes-i-hate-good-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I Hate Good Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite reads lately is former Bush speechwriter David Frum. Today he linked to a John Oliver bit from the Daily Show. It was insightful and painful to tears. It was every bit as biting as <i>A Modest Proposal<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-march-15-2012\/march-15--2012---pt--3\" title=\"UNESCO pt 1\">Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-march-15-2012\/march-15--2012---pt--4\" title=\"UNESCO pt 2\">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Frum makes some points against Oliver&#8217;s presentation that are worth a second look. Nevertheless, I am glad that he gave me the opportunity to review Oliver&#8217;s presentation. I&#8217;m not sure I necessarily forgive Frum for adding &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221; to the American lexicon, but I do appreciate that he is willing to link to things of which he disapproves. I mean that sincerely. For being a big jerk, David Frum seems to be a pretty good guy. I also appreciate that his spelling and grammar are generally correct. It&#8217;s possible that that is owed more to an editor, but I&#8217;ll give him the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when I fear for the lost art of political commentary, the Daily Show provides relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite reads lately is former Bush speechwriter David Frum. Today he linked to a John Oliver bit from the Daily Show. It was insightful and painful to tears. It was every bit as biting as A Modest Proposal. Part 1 Part 2 Interestingly, Frum makes some points against Oliver&#8217;s presentation that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}