{"id":135,"date":"2004-08-08T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T22:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2004-08-08T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2004-08-08T22:48:54","slug":"the-partisan-bias-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"The Partisan Bias Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Is your bias showing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Connors at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sgtstryker.com\/\">Sgt. Stryker&#8217;s weblog<\/a> doesn&#8217;t approve of John Kerry&#8217;s sense of humor. One day last week, while Kerry and Bush were making campaign speeches in Davenport, Iowa, a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/08\/04\/iowa.robberies\/\">robber hit three local banks<\/a>.  John Kerry allegedly responded to the news by remarking that both he and the president had airtight alibis.<\/p>\n<p>To those who, like Kevin, are offended by Kerry&#8217;s remark, I ask you to take the partisan bias test: pretend Bush made the remark, not Kerry. Would it be funny then?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I thought Kerry&#8217;s remark funny.  I didn&#8217;t know he had a sense of humor; I&#8217;m glad to learn he does.<\/p>\n<p>But it would have been even funnier if Bush had said it, because it would have come out like this: &#8220;I know me and the other guy have alibight air-ties.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your bias showing? Kevin Connors at Sgt. Stryker&#8217;s weblog doesn&#8217;t approve of John Kerry&#8217;s sense of humor. One day last week, while Kerry and Bush were making campaign speeches in Davenport, Iowa, a robber hit three local banks. John Kerry allegedly responded to the news by remarking that both he and the president had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}