{"id":10599,"date":"2014-04-25T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2014-04-25T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T20:10:13","slug":"colbert-croons-the-ballad-of-cliven-bundy-with-a-ten-gallon-hat-tip-to-sean-hannity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=10599","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Croons &#8216;The Ballad of Cliven Bundy&#8217; (With a Ten-Gallon Hat-Tip to Sean Hannity!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hannity ate up that story so hard, Bundy should have charged <i>him<\/i> grazing fees,&#8221; observed Stephen Colbert by way of introducing his brilliant <em>Ballad of Cliven Bundy<\/em>. &#8220;Like every folk hero,&#8221; Colbert continued, &#8220;he deserves a folk song&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:colbertnation.com:9634cd2f-0d43-4bcf-9035-77b92981b44a\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While that tune and that segment couldn&#8217;t be more brilliant, the Bundy situation on the range is now just getting plain sad. Here&#8217;s a clip of his fairly pathetic appearance on CNN this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width='420' height='236' src='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/api\/embed.html#\/video\/crime\/2014\/04\/25\/newday-intv-bundy-im-not-a-racist.cnn' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/status\/459537162841513984\">I snarked last night on Twitter<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p>The time at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23BundyRanch&amp;src=hash\">#BundyRanch<\/a> is now 14:59.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brad Friedman (@TheBradBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/statuses\/459537162841513984\">April 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hannity ate up that story so hard, Bundy should have charged him grazing fees,&#8221; observed Stephen Colbert by way of introducing his brilliant Ballad of Cliven Bundy. &#8220;Like every folk hero,&#8221; Colbert continued, &#8220;he deserves a folk song&#8221;&#8230; While that tune and that segment couldn&#8217;t be more brilliant, the Bundy situation on the range is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}