{"id":9412,"date":"2012-11-09T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9412"},"modified":"2012-11-09T09:16:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:16:59","slug":"bullshit-mountain-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/bullshit-mountain-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullshit Mountain News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You may have noticed how, in the run-up to the trouncing Republicans took, Republican spokespeople, including their paid online trolls, seemed supremely confident that they were about to sweep Obama out of office and goose-step their way to a permanent victory.&#160; Their consternation when reality hit is almost funny.&#160; Jon Stewart, who really is funny, has pointed out how much of their InsaniTEA comes from Bullshit Mountain News.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"FoxSheep\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FoxSheep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/FoxSheep.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the leadup to Tuesday&#8217;s election, Fox News\u2019 poll predictions were laughably wrong, with some claiming that Romney would win by a landslide when, in fact, the sitting President easily won the electoral college. <\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t just that the \u201cnews\u201d station made a few mathematical mistakes. No, there was an avalanche on Fox News\u2019 bullshit mountain on Tuesday night, reports Jon Stewart on the Daily Show\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2012\/jon-stewart-there-was-avalanche-fox-news-bullsh-mountain-election-night\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #000000; width: 520px\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:420890\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe>      <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; padding-top: 4px\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-november-7-2012\/post-democalypse-2012---america-takes-a-shower---karl-rove-s-math\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b>         <br \/>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Humor &amp; Satire Blog<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Contrary to Republican claim, this election wasn\u2019t just about demographics and was not at all about wanting stuff.&#160; The American people clearly rejected the bellicose foreign policy, the repressive social policy, and the 1% economic policy that Republicans offer.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed how, in the run-up to the trouncing Republicans took, Republican spokespeople, including their paid online trolls, seemed supremely confident that they were about to sweep Obama out of office and goose-step their way to a permanent victory.&#160; Their consternation when reality hit is almost funny.&#160; Jon Stewart, who really is funny, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/bullshit-mountain-news\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}