{"id":1385,"date":"2013-10-02T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2013-10-02T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:31:30","slug":"government-shutdown-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdown News Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/govtshutdownnews\/govtshutdownnews_vert600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1170\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey, there, US news media consumers! <\/strong>Interested in finding out what else is going on in the world besides the government shutdown? Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hah, <strong>tough shit.<\/strong> Curious about what&#8217;s up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2013\/10\/greek-neo-nazi-party-leader-due-court-20131028172408833.html\" target=\"_blank\">Greece,<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2013\/09\/sudan-turmoil-explodes-after-fuel-price-hike-2013929145610187899.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan,<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2013\/09\/a-third-intifada-offing-201392963859933843.html\" target=\"_blank\">Palestine?<\/a> Too goddamn&#8217; bad, all they&#8217;ve got for you is government shutdown news. Like it or lump it, chumps.<\/p>\n<p>For the past day or two, pretty much every US &#8220;news&#8221; network has been nothing but wall-to-wall government shutdown babble. MSDNC&#8230; uhh, MSNBC has been the worst of the lot, with continuous Obamacare pimping overlaid with 24\/7 government shutdown hysterics, taking a break only to allow one of their resident windbags, Chris &#8220;Baby Eater&#8221; Matthews, to plug his new book about his days as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/10\/01\/227867812\/chris-matthews-looks-back-on-a-time-when-politics-worked\" target=\"_blank\">flunkie<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tip_O'Neill\" target=\"_blank\">Tip O&#8217;Neill<\/a> &#8212; at one point, being interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/chris-matthews-and-wife-kathleen-matthews-fill-in-on-msnbc_b192288\" target=\"_blank\"><em>his wife,<\/em><\/a> f&#8217;crissake.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is, thank Allah for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 horizontal medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/govtshutdownnews\/govtshutdownnews_horiz.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 860kb<br \/>\n11&#215;17 vertical medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/govtshutdownnews\/govtshutdownnews_vert.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 860kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, there, US news media consumers! Interested in finding out what else is going on in the world besides the government shutdown? Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hah, tough shit. Curious about what&#8217;s up in Greece, the Sudan, or Palestine? Too goddamn&#8217; bad, all they&#8217;ve got for you is government shutdown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,158,132],"tags":[530,529,531,156],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-obamarama","category-party-animals","tag-chris-mattiews","tag-government-shutdown","tag-kathleen-matthews","tag-msnbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}