{"id":1609,"date":"2007-12-09T10:41:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T18:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/12\/our_man_of_the_year\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T18:41:52","slug":"our_man_of_the_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/12\/our_man_of_the_year.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Man of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;aieeeeee,&#8221; sez un buen amigo, &#8220;el keith es un hombre con cojones gigantescos!&#8221; Yes, Keith Olbermann still sizzles. His latest special commentary, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zlF2YcnWUio\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>exemplary piece of trash-tawkin&#8217; disapproval<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, hews to the same high standard he set for himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2006\/12\/my_person_of_th.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>here<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2006\/10\/so_much_goes_by.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>here<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. It&#8217;s not just that he&#8217;s so good at delivering his epithets for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>B<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>n<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>n<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>R<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>e<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>p<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>u<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>b<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>l<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>i<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>c<\/strong><\/font><\/a>an-in-charge. Or that he&#8217;s doing it on mainstream TV, no less. But that all his epithets (&#8220;a pathological presidential liar&#8221; who is &#8220;transcendently stupid,&#8221; &#8220;an idiot-in-chief,&#8221; &#8220;a president manifestly unfit to serve&#8221;) have the ring of truth and a conviction behind them worth a thousand pictures. Especially when he looks straight into the camera and says in his closing remarks, &#8220;You, Mr. Bush, are a bald-faced liar.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;aieeeeee,&#8221; sez un buen amigo, &#8220;el keith es un hombre con cojones gigantescos!&#8221; Yes, Keith Olbermann still sizzles. His latest special commentary, an here and BnnRpbi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-pX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}