{"id":301,"date":"2007-06-22T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T14:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=301"},"modified":"2007-06-22T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T14:49:10","slug":"friday-linkorama-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More sleep-deprived laziness:<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/120982.html\">excluded<\/a> from a candidate forum because, apparently, he is more of a fringe candidate than the men he is both out-polling and out-contribution-getting.  What is it about Libertarians that makes the media ignore them?  Every general election, they spend more time on third-party candidates who get out-polled by the Libertarians.<\/p>\n<p>Read about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2007\/06\/20\/google-gets-sucked-into-the-parasite-economy\/\">Google<\/a> has gotten sucked into politics.  Why do big corportations spend so much money buying politicians?  Because of the awful consequences that result if they don&#8217;t play the Washington game.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Cheney &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/22\/washington\/22cnd-cheney.html?ei=5088&#038;en=1c5dfec877aba826&#038;ex=1340164800&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1182522270-sNXZm2nsUvw84hQEoBHa3w\">above the law<\/a>.  Seriously, what&#8217;s wrong with these people? Let&#8217;s see Rush Limbaugh defend this! (You know he will).<\/p>\n<p>PBS funds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11185.html\">religious propaganda<\/a>.  The worst thing is that now PBS can claim they are &#8220;objective&#8221; and &#8220;fair&#8221; since they&#8217;ve balanced their usual plethora of left-wing commentary with a nutball fringe right-wing group. Why are we funding this nonsense again?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11185.html\">that liberal media<\/a>.  But . . . but . . . but Fox News!!! (Anyone notice that, like Rush Limbaugh, about 90% of the people who hate Fox News have never watched it?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More sleep-deprived laziness: Ron Paul is being excluded from a candidate forum because, apparently, he is more of a fringe candidate than the men he is both out-polling and out-contribution-getting. What is it about Libertarians that makes the media ignore them? Every general election, they spend more time on third-party candidates who get out-polled by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}