{"id":270,"date":"2008-09-07T18:56:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T01:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/270"},"modified":"2008-09-07T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T02:40:06","slug":"my-favorite-stories-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/my-favorite-stories-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Stories of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lot&#8217;s of articles and commentaries on the election this week. Here are my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\"><font size=\"3\"><a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=94332514\">Ability To Lead Armed Forces Pivotal In Election<\/a><\/font><\/em><br \/>\n<em>by Ken Harbaugh<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\"><font size=\"3\"><a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2008\/09\/06-2\">Republicans, Stop Calling Obama Elitist<\/a><\/font><\/em><br \/>\n<em>by Bill Maher (smart-ass comedian, political commentator)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\"><font size=\"3\"><a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2008\/09\/07-0\">Palin and McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shotgun Marriage<\/a><\/font><\/em><br \/>\n<em>by Frank Rich<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/gen\/37709\/thumbs\/s-LIPSTICK-large.jpg\" height=\"133\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><em class=\"b\"><font size=\"3\"><a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/09\/07\/sarah-palin-george-bush-i_n_124654.html\">Sarah Palin: George Bush in Lipstick?<\/a><\/font><\/em><br \/>\n<em>by Nico Pitney<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**Yes &#8211; that&#8217;s a morphed photo of George and Sarah&#8230;. pretty uncanny, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>And my favorite&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\"><font size=\"3\">Jon Stewart does what he does best<\/font><\/em><br \/>\nHe hits Karl Rove, Bill O&#8217;Reilly, Dick Morris and more with damning evidence of their hypocrisy regarding Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><embed FlashVars=\"videoId=184086\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"external\" height=\"316\" width=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indecision2008.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" name=\"comedy_central_player\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lot&#8217;s of articles and commentaries on the election this week. Here are my favorites: Ability To Lead Armed Forces Pivotal In Election by Ken Harbaugh Republicans, Stop Calling Obama Elitist by Bill Maher (smart-ass comedian, political commentator) Palin and McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shotgun Marriage by Frank Rich Sarah Palin: George Bush in Lipstick? by Nico Pitney **Yes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/my-favorite-stories-of-the-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Favorite Stories of the week<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}