{"id":740,"date":"2011-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/07\/the-great-thing-about-having-a-democrat-in-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T13:35:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T20:35:43","slug":"the-great-thing-about-having-a-democrat-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/07\/the-great-thing-about-having-a-democrat-in-the-white-house.html","title":{"rendered":"The Great Thing About Having a Democrat in the White House…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026is that there\u2019s no bad news. <\/a> Peter Sean Bradley remarks on the big fat thick meta-irony sandwich the NY Times serves up as it pretends to wonder why nobody (in the media that is) is discussing our soaring unemployment rate.<\/p>\n

Reminds me of that great line from Evelyn Waugh\u2019s A Handful of Dust: \u201cEverybody agreed that it was nobody\u2019s fault.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2026is that there\u2019s no bad news. Peter Sean Bradley remarks on the big fat thick meta-irony sandwich the NY Times serves up as it pretends to wonder why nobody (in the media that is) is discussing our soaring unemployment rate. Reminds me of that great line from Evelyn Waugh\u2019s A Handful of Dust: \u201cEverybody agreed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Great Thing About Having a Democrat in the White House...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"...is that there's no bad news. 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