{"id":17881,"date":"2014-08-02T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2014-08-02T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T15:48:22","slug":"elizabeth-warren-punches-banking-lobbyist-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/08\/02\/elizabeth-warren-punches-banking-lobbyist-in-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Punches Banking Lobbyist in the Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Currant<\/em> has the story Elizabeth Warren Punches Banking Lobbyist in the Face<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were arguing over the role of derivatives in causing the global financial crisis,\u201d explains an anonymous Warren staffer, \u201cand things started to get heated. They were both standing up wagging their fingers at each other while screaming at the top of their lungs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then suddenly she just popped him in the face. Out of nowhere, just one really hard jab with her fist. He collapsed to the floor and started bleeding from his nose. I mean it wasn\u2019t a lot of blood, but there was definitely some.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can picture it now, this frail woman who probably weighs less than 100 lbs decks this lobbyist with one blow.\u00a0 Is this why we elected her?<\/p>\n

In case I have to spell it out for you, here is a quote from The Daily Currant’s<\/em> About page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Daily Currant is an English language online\u00a0satirical\u00a0newspaper that covers global politics, business, technology, entertainment, science, health and media. It is accessible from over 190 countries worldwide – now including South Sudan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can hardly wait to hear how Faux Noise covers this “story”.\u00a0 If anyone has the fortitude to be able to watch that other satirical medium, please report back here if they cover it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily Currant has the story Elizabeth Warren Punches Banking Lobbyist in the Face. \u201cThey were arguing over the role of derivatives in causing the global financial crisis,\u201d explains an anonymous Warren staffer, \u201cand things started to get heated. They were both standing up wagging their fingers at each other while screaming at the top […]<\/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-17881","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\/17881","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=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17882,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions\/17882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}