{"id":5193,"date":"2005-09-07T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T18:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5193.html"},"modified":"2005-09-07T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T18:12:35","slug":"what-is-your-obsession-with-the-horrible-humanitarian-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/what-is-your-obsession-with-the-horrible-humanitarian-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What is your obsession with the horrible humanitarian catastrophe?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, The Daily Show was in rare form last night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2005\/09\/07.html#a4831\">C&#038;L has some video<\/a>, and here&#8217;s some of the transcript, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2005\/09\/07\/BL2005090701133_pf.html\">via Dan Froomkin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ed Helms: &#8220;Jon, today, finally, a ray of hope. Eight days after Katrina came ashore, the federal government has gotten its act together, marshalling all of its resources in a desperate effort to save this beloved, and now beleaguered, president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart: &#8220;President? I thought you were talking about New Orleans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Helms: &#8220;No, that place is [expletive]. But many here believe with quick action, George W. Bush&#8217;s reputation can still be saved. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main thing is, in a very reassuring sight, the federal government has finally brought in the heavy machinery: The Rove. Many believe he&#8217;s the one man who can fix the gaping breach in the president&#8217;s approval ratings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart: &#8220;But what impact will that have on the actual rescue effort?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Helms: &#8220;The actual rescue effort? What is your obsession with the horrible humanitarian catastrophe?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, The Daily Show was in rare form last night. C&#038;L has some video, and here&#8217;s some of the transcript, via Dan Froomkin: Ed Helms: &#8220;Jon, today, finally, a ray of hope. Eight days after Katrina came ashore, the federal government has gotten its act together, marshalling all of its resources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}