{"id":11107,"date":"2012-05-26T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T02:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2012-05-26T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T02:23:09","slug":"michael-tomasky-on-the-medias-foolish-elizabeth-warren-witch-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/05\/26\/michael-tomasky-on-the-medias-foolish-elizabeth-warren-witch-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Tomasky on the Media\u2019s Foolish Elizabeth Warren Witch Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Beast<\/em> has the article <a title=\"The Daily Beast article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/05\/26\/michael-tomasky-on-the-media-s-foolish-elizabeth-warren-witch-hunt.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael Tomasky on the Media\u2019s Foolish Elizabeth Warren Witch Hunt<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The appearance Thursday morning of this Suffolk University poll (linked to above) made me think: Well, this story line is about to wrap up. If more than two-thirds of voters don\u2019t care, then that\u2019s that. But no\u2014still going strong! And now it\u2019s not the loopy, right-wing, and pro-Brown Herald, which pushed the story first, but the Globe trying to play catch up. Yes, yes, it\u2019s all in the public interest. What, you say, the public says it isn\u2019t interested? Well, we\u2019ll teach them what\u2019s in their interest!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not being a subscriber of &#8220;the loopy, right-wing, and pro-Brown Herald, which pushed the story first&#8221;, I had no idea that The Boston Globe was pushing this story so hard because it was &#8220;trying to play catch up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to reader RichardH for pointing me to <em>The Daily Beast<\/em> article that completes my education on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast has the article Michael Tomasky on the Media\u2019s Foolish Elizabeth Warren Witch Hunt. The appearance Thursday morning of this Suffolk University poll (linked to above) made me think: Well, this story line is about to wrap up. If more than two-thirds of voters don\u2019t care, then that\u2019s that. But no\u2014still going strong! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11108,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}