{"id":1219,"date":"2004-08-03T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/08\/03\/kissykissy\/"},"modified":"2004-08-03T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2004-08-03T14:42:22","slug":"kissykissy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/08\/03\/kissykissy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissy-Kissy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that at least one of the pundits on MSNBC with Chris Matthews during last week\u2019s Democratic convention was as unimpressed with the host\u2019s antics <a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/commonwealthcommonsense\/2004\/07\/how_high_the_ba.html \">as I was<\/a>.  Newsweek journalist Howard Fineman, a ubiquitous presence in the world of pundocrity, complained about Matthews\u2019s diarrhea of the mouth.  <\/p>\n<p>NY Daily News gossip columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/front\/story\/218419p-187836c.html Fineman\">Lloyd Grove claims<\/a> is in \u201chot water.\u201d  Fineman, perhaps mindful of either his pundit pay or the ego rush he gets being on TV, is already apologizing to the blowhard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sometimes when you are tired &#8211; when you&#8217;ve been yakking all week and racing from a convention hall to a political reception to an interview &#8211; you screw up, big time, as Dick Cheney would say. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I did that this morning by failing to defend the best political mind on TV, my loyal colleague and host Chris Matthews &#8230; Matthews is the best thing on political TV.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe best political mind on TV\u201d?   Perhaps.  But Howard Fineman is a shoe-in for the best ass kisser on TV. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that at least one of the pundits on MSNBC with Chris Matthews during last week\u2019s Democratic convention was as unimpressed with the host\u2019s antics as I was. Newsweek journalist Howard Fineman, a ubiquitous presence in the world of pundocrity, complained about Matthews\u2019s diarrhea of the mouth. NY Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/08\/03\/kissykissy\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}