{"id":3952,"date":"2008-08-24T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T17:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2008-08-24T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T17:12:19","slug":"alexander-cockburn-countdown-to-loofah-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3952","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Cockburn: Countdown to Loofah Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alexander Cockburn, <em>Counterpunch<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/cockburn08232008.html\">23\/4 August 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nO\u2019Reilly-haters should be stocking up on loofahs. Only nine days to go. On September 1 you may proceed towards any facility owned by Rupert Murdoch and wave your loofah. As I reminded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/cockburn08162008.html\">CounterPunchers last week<\/a> September 1, 2004  was the night  O\u2019Reilly made a lewd phone call to his Fox producer Andrea Mackris, depicting a prospective sexual encounter between the two of them  in which the loofah played a significant role. Disclosure of O&#8217;Reilly\u2019s reveries led to the public humiiation of this repellent bully and to his payment   of an undisclosed sum (anywhere from $2 million to $10 million to ensure Ms Mackris\u2019 silence. CounterPunch has proclaimed September 1 2008 as Loofah Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/cockburn08232008.html\">Read the commentary<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch, 23\/4 August 2008 Excerpt: O\u2019Reilly-haters should be stocking up on loofahs. Only nine days to go. On September 1 you may proceed towards any facility owned by Rupert Murdoch and wave your loofah. As I reminded CounterPunchers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3952\">Continue reading <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":{"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-11K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}