{"id":21,"date":"2005-07-13T19:16:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T23:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-04-24T19:17:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T23:17:49","slug":"oh-my-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"OH. MY. GOD."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the most incredible interview on television in YEARS. Dissenting points of view, both side made their point. It, of course, helps that I agreed with the person who totally and completely laid the smack down on the dumb shit. It was an interview of Bernard Goldberg (of CBS fame) pimping his new book &#8220;100 People Who are Screwing up America (and Al Franken is #37)&#8221; on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/the_daily_show\/index.jhtml\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a>. A small excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Goldberg:<\/strong> You know, years ago, a drunk in a bar wouldn&#8217;t think to say the &#8216;F&#8217; word. Recently, Chevy Chase was at a formal gala at the Kennedy Center, and he called our president a &#8220;dumb f-&#8220;.<br \/>\n<strong>Stewart:<\/strong> Well, Thomas Jefferson used to fuck slaves. I think things have improved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from naming Jimmy Carter #6 on the list (WHAT THE FUCK?!?), he contends that the real problem isn&#8217;t with the people in power filling the government with corruption, it&#8217;s with actors and rappers who use nasty language. Even better, during the interview, he had no problem bringing himself to say &#8220;spic, kike, and faggot&#8221; on TV, but he couldn&#8217;t bring himself to say &#8220;nigger&#8221;. I guess that would have really crossed a line or something.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing. I actually found myself getting closer and closer to the TV, getting up on my knees, totally riveted with it. If you can, catch it on the replay. Otherwise, <a title=\"SUPERSLAM!\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2005\/07\/13.html#a3919\">watch the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t there be more people willing to call bullshit like Jon Stewart?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the most incredible interview on television in YEARS. Dissenting points of view, both side made their point. It, of course, helps that I agreed with the person who totally and completely laid the smack down on the dumb shit. It was an interview of Bernard Goldberg (of CBS fame) pimping his new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}