{"id":1742,"date":"2008-02-08T18:34:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2008-02-21T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T12:46:36","slug":"you-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"You failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ia <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1743' rel='attachment wp-att-1743' title='Failistan'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/yo_fail_istan.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Failistan' \/><\/a>Crooks and Liars, I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/02\/08\/jon-stewarts-farewell-to-mitt-romney-fc-yu\/\">The Daily Show&#8217;s coverage of Romney&#8217;s CPAC speech<\/a>: the speech contained so many platitudes, cliches and stereotypes that it had me laughing.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life and eroded morality.\n<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have it, Europe: take that and eat some more of that &#8216;pain de francais and freedom fries with that&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><em>Update 1:<\/em> Slightly related, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUSN0655798320080206\">&#8220;&#8216;Euros accepted&#8217; signs pop up in NYC&#8221;<\/a> (via Reuters).<br \/>\n<em>Update 2:<\/em> RawStory has a longer clip of that <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Daily_Show_Romney_never_recovered_from_0208.html\">Daily Show segment<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Update 3 (02\/13\/07):<\/em> This also reminds me of Romney&#8217;s other gaffe when he was asked about on his sons support for the military and nation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mefeedia.com\/entry\/3304557\/\">video<\/a>). The question was asked by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2007\/8\/8\/105129\/1835\">Nancy Griffith<\/a> and the clip circulated for a while in the media.<br \/>\n<em>Update 4 (02\/21\/07):<\/em> Jon Stewart (at Larry King&#8217;s) discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0MdJOcgzyqU\">Romney&#8217;s comment<\/a> (YouTube video: approximately at 4:00).\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Crooks and Liars, I saw The Daily Show&#8217;s coverage of Romney&#8217;s CPAC speech: the speech contained so many platitudes, cliches and stereotypes that it had me laughing. Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1742\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[58,47,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}