{"id":7645,"date":"2010-01-13T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2010-01-13T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:28:42","slug":"brad-at-uk-guardian-palin-goes-rogue-joins-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7645","title":{"rendered":"Brad at UK Guardian: &#8216;Palin Goes Rogue, Joins Fox&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/SarahPalinWink_med.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The editors at the UK&#8217;s <i>Guardian<\/i> asked me to ring in yesterday on &#8220;mavricky maverick&#8221; Sarah Palin&#8217;s new gig at Fox &#8220;News&#8221;. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2010\/jan\/13\/sarah-palin-fox-news\">so I did.<\/a> A sample&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">On Fox, if you say it, it&#8217;s true. Even if it&#8217;s made up out of thin air. So &#8220;fair and balanced news&#8221; it is! Let the Tea Bagging of Sarah Palin by Bill O&#8217;Reilly begin!<\/div>\n<p>Among the nice things about about writing for the <i>Guardian<\/i> is the exceptionally dry English wit in the comments section &#8212; at least when I&#8217;m lucky enough that a piece of mine gets posted in British primetime <i>before<\/i> the ugly American wingnuts show up to start hitting the comments button a few hours later.<\/p>\n<p>As of now the piece has some 224 comments. The first hundred or so, before the Fox &#8220;News&#8221; trolls awoke across the pond are quite smart. Thereafter, they&#8217;re also amusing, but in a different kind of way. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2010\/jan\/13\/sarah-palin-fox-news\">Enjoy&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editors at the UK&#8217;s Guardian asked me to ring in yesterday on &#8220;mavricky maverick&#8221; Sarah Palin&#8217;s new gig at Fox &#8220;News&#8221;. And so I did. A sample&#8230; On Fox, if you say it, it&#8217;s true. Even if it&#8217;s made up out of thin air. So &#8220;fair and balanced news&#8221; it is! Let the Tea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,14,388],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-fox-news","category-sarah-palin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}