{"id":2693,"date":"2013-05-14T01:49:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2013-05-14T01:49:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:49:14","slug":"annals-of-the-culture-war-tv-party-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/14\/annals-of-the-culture-war-tv-party-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"ANNALS OF THE CULTURE WAR, TV PARTY EDITION."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/348204\/mad-men-syndrome\">William F. Gavin<\/a> at <i>National Review<\/i> on <i>Mad Men<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the show has degenerated into absurdity, loss of focus, and meandering plot lines. The main character has become eccentric, distant, increasingly mean-spirited, and disoriented.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Gee, come to think of it, this sounds just like the Obama administration, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At dinner tonight, Gavin told friends, &#8220;This soup is thin and bitter &#8212; like Obama!&#8221; Leaving the restaurant, he buttoned his jacket and remarked, &#8220;The night&#8217;s gotten cold, like Obama&#8217;s relationship with the press. Or maybe like the corpses of the babies slaughtered by Planned Parenthood.&#8221; But no one was left to hear him.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the same venue, <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalreview.com\/media-blog\/348147\/somebody-should-get-fired-over-snls-benghazi-skit\">Greg Pollowitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Somebody Should Get Fired Over SNL&#8217;s Benghazi Skit<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gotten to the point where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m amazed when SNL is actually funny or relevant as political satire, but Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cold open wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just a dud as a joke, but completely offensive to the four Americans who lost their lives in Benghazi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I imagine Pollowitz drunk at some bar, yelling &#8220;This jukebox is full of lies!&#8221; Like I often say: Do they even <i>know<\/i> any normal people?<\/p>\n<p>via alicublog <a href=\"http:\/\/alicublog.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/annals-of-culture-war-tv-party-edition.html\">http:\/\/alicublog.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/annals-of-culture-war-tv-party-edition.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William F. Gavin at National Review on Mad Men: &#8230;the show has degenerated into absurdity, loss of focus, and meandering plot lines. The main character has become eccentric, distant, increasingly mean-spirited, and disoriented.\u00c2\u00a0 Gee, come to think of it, this sounds just like the Obama administration, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? At dinner tonight, Gavin told friends, &#8220;This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/14\/annals-of-the-culture-war-tv-party-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ANNALS OF THE CULTURE WAR, TV PARTY EDITION.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[7],"tags":[187,6,186],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-alicublog","tag-ifttt","tag-roy-edroso"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-Hr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}