{"id":11127,"date":"2018-04-02T04:12:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T09:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2018-03-31T14:15:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T19:15:13","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-hoggwash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-hoggwash\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: HOGGWASH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

HOGGWASH
\n\u201cReceive our wisdom, peasants,
\nAnd be grateful for our presence
\nAs your benefactors,\u201d
\nSay anchors and actors,
\nAthletes, and adolescents.<\/p>\n

\n

From the archive<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

DAINTY, AREN\u2019T WE?
\n\u201cSuch a horror has never occurred,
\nSuch a thing never spoken or heard:
\nWe were shocked and dismayed,
\nMortified and afraid
\nWhen the president said a bad word!\u201d
\n(2018)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

OUT OF BOUNDS
\nIf you\u2019re good on a stage or a court,
\nYou\u2019ll enjoy our unflagging support,
\nBut don\u2019t offer us clues
\nTo your vacuous views:
\nStick to acting or playing a sport.
\n(2017)<\/p>\n

SUPER BAWL
\nSeeing tirades and tantrums begin
\nWell before Donald Trump was sworn in,
\nFake adults throwing fits
\nLike some overgrown kids,
\nAren\u2019t you glad these big brats didn\u2019t win?
\n(2017)<\/p>\n

\n

GATEKEEPERS
\nAcademia\u2019s vetting our views,
\nMainstream media\u2019s spinning our news,
\nBut they seem to forget
\nThat it\u2019s all on the Net:
\nTheir distortions are not what we choose.
\n(2017)<\/p>\n

NEWS SURREAL
\nMainstream media\u2019s known to suffuse
\nIts reports with particular views:
\nWith this bias abundant,
\nIt\u2019s absurdly redundant
\nTo call what it\u00a0offers \u201cfake news<\/span>.\u201d
\n(2017)<\/p>\n

THIS IS CNN
\n\u201cHey! Hello! Over here! Can\u2019t you see?
\nI\u2019ve a question to ask! Call on me!
\nAre you totally blind?
\nAre you out of your mind?
\nI\u2019m a big shot who\u2019s seen on TV!\u201d
\n(2017)<\/p>\n

SELF-ANOINTED
\n\u201cHow can anyone belie us
\nOr suggest we bear a bias?
\nOur head-tilted-back poses
\nLet you see up our noses<\/span>,
\nProving we\u2019re ever so pious<\/span>.\u201d
\n(2017)<\/p>\n

TWITS
\nIt may be just the biggest lie ever,
\nMaking saner sorts say, \u201cWell, I never!\u201d
\nBut celebrities tweet it
\nAnd you have to repeat it
\nIf you want to sound current and clever.
\n(2014)<\/p>\n

PROJECTIONISTS
\nIt\u2019s a simple, effective deceit:
\nThose called \u201cracist\u201d are doomed to defeat,
\nYet the ones with most gall,
\nThe most racist of all,
\nAre the pandering liberal elite.
\n(2014)<\/p>\n

DETOX
\nTake the pledge and escape from its grip,
\nNevermore from this moment a nip:
\nIf you value your brain,
\nYou must henceforth refrain
\nFrom the vile Mainstream Media drip.
\n(2014)<\/p>\n

THE BURROWERS
\n\u201cJust like Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow,
\nWe\u2019re committed, determined, and thorough:
\nIn the media, the schools,
\nWith our radical rules,
\nWe\u2019re the moles that unceasingly burrow.\u201d
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

IN TOLERANCE
\nLeft-wing radicals running our schools
\nDo great harm with their inverted rules:
\nThey oppose every norm,
\nReject custom and form,
\nAnd show deference to freaks and to fools.
\n(2007)<\/p>\n

THE RULES
\n\u201cWe can tell filthy lies about you
\nAnd there\u2019s nothing at all you can do,
\nBut we\u2019ll make such a fuss
\nIf you criticize us \u2013
\nEven if what you say is quite true.\u201d
\n(2007)<\/p>\n

BIRDS OF A FEATHER
\nThe media rarely deride
\nA President on the same side:
\nFor the faithful defender
\nOf their social agenda,
\nThey\u2019re willing to let some things slide.
\n(1998)<\/p>\n

THE JOURNALIST
\nIn the past, he was forced to \u201cpay dues\u201d
\nAnd develop \u201ca nose for the news.\u201d
\nWell, he still has a nose,
\nBut, my, how it grows
\nWhen the facts must conform to his views!
\n(1996)<\/p>\n

INSTANT ANALYSIS
\nJennings, Rather, Brokaw
\nSeem determined to jabber and jaw.
\nThey think we\u2019re too dumb
\nTo discern the outcome
\nOf the campaign debate we just saw.
\n(1991)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Last week\u2019s limerick<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

STATIONS
\nHe\u2019s condemned to a pain-filled parade,
\nFalling thrice (even with Simon\u2019s aid),
\nHearing sad women\u2019s sighs,
\nThen he\u2019s stripped, nailed, and dies,
\nFrom the cross taken down, and tomb-laid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: HOGGWASH \u201cReceive our wisdom, peasants, And be grateful for our presence As your benefactors,\u201d Say anchors and actors, Athletes, and adolescents. From the archive DAINTY, AREN\u2019T WE? \u201cSuch a horror has never occurred, Such a thing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Your Weekly Politickle: HOGGWASH - Politickles","description":"Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: HOGGWASH \u201cReceive our wisdom, peasants, And be grateful for our presence As yo"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5433,588,5431,5432,5435,5434,2442,7,5321],"class_list":["post-11127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-hogg","tag-fr-duplantier","tag-hoggwash","tag-marjory-stoneman-douglas","tag-national-anthem","tag-parkland-florida","tag-political-limerick","tag-politickle","tag-taking-a-knee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}