{"id":8180,"date":"2017-02-18T21:08:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T03:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=8180"},"modified":"2017-02-18T21:08:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T03:08:52","slug":"the-funny-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-funny-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"the funny thing. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Late night comedians went from stand ups to standing jokes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In high dudgeon, obsessive raves, compulsive attacks, hypersensitive over-reactions to anything and every thing, desperate over the end of their civilization, they present their nightly farce under the rubric of entertainment, inspiring the useful tools swarming under the guidance of new community organizations\u2014innocents who think late night TV is the real news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Late night writers gave up jokes for bathetic propaganda. The laugh tracks ring as hollow as their hosts\u2019 feigned self assurance. Worst of all, their desperate hysterical ravings aren\u2019t funny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The big lie, the yuge lie, is all of this instant umbrage materialized after the election. The Left went from zero to please-pull-over in the time it took for the returns to come in. Everything was fine while the headlights pointed Left when all of a sudden the focus changed and the nightmare began.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For over a year the Republicans broadcast their candidate selection process. Conservative ideas were discussed, almost ad nauseam, while the Left remained silent. They were sure the fix was in and nothing could derail the Clinton\u2014except as it turned out the Clinton herself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Left\u2019s panic reaction now consumes cable, the airwaves, and the internet. If this onslaught were a bona fide concern over their policies, the Left had over a year to make that case. But they were too busy goose stepping around Obama\u2019s pen and phone to show much concern. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Now, after the election, suddenly it\u2019s the end of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Well, it\u2019s not the end of the world. But it seems to be the end of late night comedy, at least for a while.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late night comedians went from stand ups to standing jokes. In high dudgeon, obsessive raves, compulsive attacks, hypersensitive over-reactions to anything and every thing, desperate over the end of their civilization, they present their nightly farce under the rubric of entertainment, inspiring the useful tools swarming under the guidance of new community organizations\u2014innocents who think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[233,85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comedy","7":"category-leftism","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8181,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions\/8181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}