{"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":"<p>The very proper announcer on the BBC World Service tonight dryly quoting, with perfect and careful enunciation, Boehner&#39;s comment about Cruz, <i>&quot;I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>One got the impression that the announcer had been waiting to say &quot;son of a bitch&quot; 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<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/election-us-2016-36163188'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/eUo-Mxg3rT5_4IXRyMsCtsbRkzpVQvmEEIIqQ6XDuc5iSscwbT-D61-jTs-vy6gy1VNFiErm-SPTuKRZNCaAn1VnlRzwdv_JOhHvTPUfiIDDgVhLfdSJdvpk_zbCKt7L1i79JFpLxqDWPxInW89xJ6R0tM7B31YtXXjOOdjCnJA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/election-us-2016-36163188'>US election 2016: Former House Speaker Boehner calls Ted Cruz &#8216;Lucifer&#8217; &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nUS presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has been called &#8220;Lucifer in the flesh&#8221; by the former Speaker of the House of Representatives and fellow Republican, John Boehner.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BSzh8YjAorh'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very proper announcer on the BBC World Service tonight dryly quoting, with perfect and careful enunciation, Boehner&#39;s comment about Cruz, &quot;I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.&quot; One got the impression that the announcer had been waiting to say &quot;son of a bitch&quot; on the air &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/my-nominee-for-most-smile-worthy-moment-of-this-election-so-far.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My nominee for most smile-worthy moment of this election so far&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":28763,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/tweets-from-2012-08-03.html","url_meta":{"origin":130513,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2012-08-03","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Aug-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watching \"Monty Python & the Holy Grail\" with the girl. 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