{"id":498,"date":"2003-09-03T12:33:28","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T17:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=498"},"modified":"2003-09-03T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2003-09-03T17:33:28","slug":"al-frankens-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken&#8217;s New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely love the title of Al Franken&#8217;s new book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0525947647\/ref=pd_gw_tst_1\/002-2716558-4748007\">Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right<\/a>.  It&#8217;s almost as good of a title as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0385314744\/ref=pd_sim_books_4\/002-2716558-4748007?v=glance&#038;s=books\">Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations<\/a>.  I mean&#8230; how can you not laugh at titles like that???<\/p>\n<p>I also found the lawsuit by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\">FOX News<\/a> to be hysterically funny &#8212; I mean&#8230; Rush Limbaugh didn&#8217;t sue over the title of the last book which could count pretty well as slander.  FOX News is also hardly fair and balanced.  They show freaks like O&#8217;Reilly and Hannity and Colmes.  Franken&#8217;s book is eminently more of a balanced view than that of those jokers.<\/p>\n<p>I think the subtitle of ::Meditatio:: is going to become &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who sends me a copy of the newest book will have my perpetual gratitude.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely love the title of Al Franken&#8217;s new book: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. It&#8217;s almost as good of a title as Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=498\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksmagazines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-82","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}