\nHe was sneering that Times columns make good \u201ckindling.\u201d He was ranting that after you throw away the paper, \u201cit takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.\u201d He was observing, approvingly, that \u201cDick Cheney\u2019s fondest pipe dream is driving a bulldozer into The New York Times while drinking crude oil out of Keith Olbermann\u2019s skull.\u201d<\/p>\n
I called Colbert with a dare: if he thought it was so easy to be a Times Op-Ed pundit, he should try it. He came right over. In a moment of weakness, I had staged a coup d\u2019moi. I just hope he leaves at some point. He\u2019s typing and drinking and threatening to \u201cshave Paul Krugman with a broken bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Because the "Perky Redhead" decided to let Stephen Colbert write it. A Mock Columnist, Amok – New York Times He was sneering that Times columns make good \u201ckindling.\u201d He was ranting that after you throw away the paper, \u201cit takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.\u201d He was observing, approvingly, that \u201cDick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9387,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions\/9387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}