{"id":130513,"date":"2016-04-28T22:58:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T04:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/my-nominee-for-most-smile-worthy-moment-of-this-election-so-far.html"},"modified":"2016-05-02T17:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:44:37","slug":"my-nominee-for-most-smile-worthy-moment-of-this-election-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/my-nominee-for-most-smile-worthy-moment-of-this-election-so-far.html","title":{"rendered":"My nominee for most smile-worthy moment of this election so far"},"content":{"rendered":"

The very proper announcer on the BBC World Service tonight dryly quoting, with perfect and careful enunciation, Boehner's comment about Cruz, "I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life."<\/i><\/p>\n

One got the impression that the announcer had been waiting to say "son of a bitch" on the air his entire professional career, and he was both amused and pleased to finally have been given such a worthy excuse to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nUS election 2016: Former House Speaker Boehner calls Ted Cruz ‘Lucifer’ – BBC News<\/a><\/span>
\nUS presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has been called “Lucifer in the flesh” by the former Speaker of the House of Representatives and fellow Republican, John Boehner.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The very proper announcer on the BBC World Service tonight dryly quoting, with perfect and careful enunciation, Boehner's comment about Cruz, "I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life." One got the impression that the announcer had been waiting to say "son of a bitch" on the air … Continue reading “My nominee for most smile-worthy moment of this election so far”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129591,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/trump-cruz-lets-call-the-whole-thing-off.html","url_meta":{"origin":130513,"position":0},"title":"Trump! 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