{"id":4138,"date":"2010-03-09T18:50:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2010-03-09T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:50:13","slug":"former-rep-massa-disappoints-glenn-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4138\/former-rep-massa-disappoints-glenn-beck\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rep. Massa Disappoints Glenn Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"

And he didn\u2019t do much better with viewers either.\u00a0 After building up the drama for former Congressman Eric Massa\u2019s (D-NY) appearance on his television show, Glenn Beck ended his program with an apology<\/a> to those who watched \u2018til the bitter end.\u00a0 \u201cThis (information shared by Massa) didn\u2019t affect you (the American people).\u201d<\/p>\n

Blame Massa for blowing a golden opportunity to give dates, times, and names of specific instances where politicos crossed the line into illegal or unethical behavior.\u00a0 Instead, he gave bland jeremiads about the corrupting influence of money in politics, and flipped the narrative on who\u2019s responsible for him stepping down.\u00a0 Initially, it was the White House and Democratic House Leadership who \u201cforced\u201d his resignation<\/a>.\u00a0 Now, he \u201cowns his mistakes\u201d and accepts full responsibility<\/a> for his resignation.\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 The only reason this is a story is because people were led to believe a member of Congress was ousted to ease passage of health care “reform.”\u00a0 Now, it is just a story of a seemingly decent guy unable to cope with the insane demands of national politics.<\/p>\n

But blame Beck too for not getting at least one specific instance of a date, time, and name before going on the air to ensure the hour wasn\u2019t a waste.\u00a0 He won\u2019t forget that lesson next time.\u00a0 For now, it looks like the Obama Administration \u2013 and Rahm Emanuel in particular \u2013 dodged a potentially catastrophic revelation about the practice of Big Boy politics.\u00a0 Like the Rod Blagojevich smoking gun that never fired, Eric Massa had his chance to establish his credibility with specifics.\u00a0 His failure to do so means that his critics will be the ones taking up the lion\u2019s share of his fifteen minutes in the spotlight.\u00a0 Too bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And he didn\u2019t do much better with viewers either.\u00a0 After building up the drama for former Congressman Eric Massa\u2019s (D-NY) appearance on his television show, Glenn Beck ended his program with an apology to those who watched \u2018til the bitter end.\u00a0 \u201cThis (information shared by Massa) didn\u2019t affect you (the American people).\u201d Blame Massa for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,76,465,181,933],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-eric-massa","tag-glenn-beck","tag-health-care-reform","tag-rahm-emanuel","tag-rod-blagojevich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}