{"id":618,"date":"2008-04-23T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2008-04-23T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:59:14","slug":"mixed-metaphor-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Metaphor Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-619\" title=\"Mixed Metaphor Award\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/metaphormixer_50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"123\" \/>Time to present another Mixed Metaphor Award. This go around the award goes to Barack Obama staffer <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/mark-finkelstein\/2008\/04\/22\/mika-clinton-campaign-pounced-lemmings\" target=\"_blank\">Mika Brzezinski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Well, but you can&#8217;t argue that the Clinton campaign didn&#8217;t do some serious damage in light of the Wright stuff and the bitter comments&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>SCARBOROUGH: That wasn&#8217;t the Clinton campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>BRZEZINSKI: <strong>They pounced on it like lemmings.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>SCARBOROUGH: That wasn&#8217;t the Clinton campaign&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>BRZEZINSKI: Oh, please.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>SCARBOROUGH: And I don&#8217;t know if lemmings actually pounce. I think lemmings go over cliffs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalvalues.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/when_lemmings_p.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Scheie<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to present another Mixed Metaphor Award. This go around the award goes to Barack Obama staffer Mika Brzezinski: MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Well, but you can&#8217;t argue that the Clinton campaign didn&#8217;t do some serious damage in light of the Wright stuff and the bitter comments&#8211; SCARBOROUGH: That wasn&#8217;t the Clinton campaign. BRZEZINSKI: They pounced on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,46,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}