From the CNN website<\/p>\n
“I’m surprised that they’re saying that there’s no politics involved, and we’re still 2\u00bd weeks away from April Fool’s Day,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-New Hampshire<\/span>, chairman of the Senate panel. “How can they possibly stand there with a straight face and say that’s not politics? Of course it’s politics.” [bold is mine -ld]<\/span><\/p>\n One would think that a “news” story could get this correct – after all there are only 100 Senators and I can Google that list pretty fast.. It isn’t that Leahy is a new Senator – he’s been there a long time. Guess CNN doesn’t fact check even these basics. Or they think Vermont and New Hampshire are one and the same? Or they have taken a page from Faux Noise who make a habit of mislabeling.<\/p>\n Leahy is D-Vermont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the CNN website “I’m surprised that they’re saying that there’s no politics involved, and we’re still 2\u00bd weeks away from April Fool’s Day,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-New Hampshire, chairman of the Senate panel. “How can they possibly stand there with a straight face and say that’s not politics? Of course it’s politics.” [bold…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-leahy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}