{"id":688,"date":"2013-01-08T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/08\/kettle-meet-pot"},"modified":"2013-01-08T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:26:00","slug":"kettle-meet-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Kettle, meet pot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Scripture tell us of Jesus admonishing those who should take care of casting stones against sinners if they, themselves, have sinned. <\/p>\n<p>The same admonition perhaps can be applied to politicians who cast pejorative terms against fellow pols.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, called Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid of Nevada an \u201cidiot\u201d for comparing Hurricane Katrina with Hurricane Sandy while criticizing those who voted against sending aid to Sandy victims while scrambling to secure aid for Katrina victims.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/07\/16396198-la-sen-vitter-calls-reid-idiot-for-sandy-katrina-comparison?lite\" href=\"http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/07\/16396198-la-sen-vitter-calls-reid-idiot-for-sandy-katrina-comparison?lite\">http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/07\/16396198-la-sen-vitter-calls-reid-idiot-for-sandy-katrina-comparison?lite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Idiot, eh? Let\u2019s see: Wasn\u2019t it Vitter\u2019s name that showed up some years ago on a list of clients belonging to a high-priced D.C. call girl\/hooker? And wasn\u2019t it Vitter who issued a very public apology with his grim-faced wife standing next to him when the revelation came to light?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Vitter isn\u2019t the first pol to toss out a hypocritical epithet against a fellow pol. Nor will he be the last one.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s just the latest one to earn a Bronx cheer for failing to take care when casting a stone.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture tell us of Jesus admonishing those who should take care of casting stones against sinners if they, themselves, have sinned. The same admonition perhaps can be applied to politicians who cast pejorative terms against fellow pols. U.S. Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, called Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid of Nevada an \u201cidiot\u201d for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kettle, meet pot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}