{"id":41017,"date":"2014-02-06T21:36:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/06\/i-cant-get-no-fox-distraction.html"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:18:03","slug":"i-cant-get-no-fox-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/06\/i-cant-get-no-fox-distraction.html","title":{"rendered":"I can't get no … Fox distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lovely Jon Stewart segment on Fox News' obsession with how Obama distracts everyone from everything they want to accuse him of by distracting them from everything else. Except, of course, that everything he actually talks about is a distraction from everything else that they want him to be talking about, except that when he talks about one of those things, well, obviously,<\/i> it's a distraction from everything else …<\/p>\n

(The first video in this sequence is at\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/UtnIxf<\/a>, though this second half is funnier.)\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Appetite for Distraction – The Hawking-Oppenheimer Distraction Loop<\/a>
\n Fox News distracts the American people by accusing President Obama of distracting the American people.\n <\/p>\n

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Lovely Jon Stewart segment on Fox News' obsession with how Obama distracts everyone from everything they want to accuse him of by distracting them from everything else. Except, of course, that everything he actually talks about is a distraction from everything else that they want him to be talking about, except that when he talks … Continue reading “I can't get no … Fox distraction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29974,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/lines-and-the-psychology-of-waiting.html","url_meta":{"origin":41017,"position":0},"title":"Lines and the Psychology of Waiting","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Aug-12 2:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing tremendously new or startling here, but it's still an interesting read. 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