{"id":3796,"date":"2009-08-18T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2009-08-18T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T14:56:34","slug":"the-caricature-of-rahm-emanuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3796","title":{"rendered":"The Caricature of Rahm Emanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I thought it was pretty amusing that Zeke Emanuel didn’t seem ready to play along with Ezra Klein’s last farcical questions about his brother, Rahm<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What is your brother Rahm’s favorite food?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Good question. I don’t know, actually.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard it’s the still-beating hearts of his enemies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Oh, my brother is a lovely person. He doesn’t do any of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that Ezekial is still smarting from the ongoing campaign to paint him as a “Dr. Death”<\/a> who wants to euthanize those who aren’t productive enough. (This despite the fact that he has been on record as opposing euthanasia since at least a decade ago.)<\/p>\n

Of course, this Times<\/em> piece over the weekend by Peter Baker and Jeff Zeleny profiling Rahm Emanuel<\/a> has a much lighter take on the most powerful chief of staff in memory:<\/p>\n

The caricature of Mr. Emanuel as a profanity-spewing operative has given way to a more nuanced view: as a profanity-spewing operative with a keen understanding of how to employ power…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I thought it was pretty amusing that Zeke Emanuel didn’t seem ready to play along with Ezra Klein’s last farcical questions about his brother, Rahm: What is your brother Rahm’s favorite food? Good question. I don’t know, actually. I’ve heard it’s the still-beating hearts of his enemies. Oh, my brother is a lovely person. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143,4,458],"tags":[2205,2204,93,934,1316,961,148],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-dr-death","tag-ezekial-emanuel","tag-ezra-klein","tag-jeff-zeleny","tag-peter-baker","tag-rahm-emanuel","tag-the-new-york-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-Ze","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}