{"id":38225,"date":"2019-05-06T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38225"},"modified":"2019-04-06T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T12:31:37","slug":"qotd-political-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/qotd-political-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Political scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you say \u201cClinton scandal,\u201d the first thing that comes to mind for most people, at least for those of us old enough to have been around for Bill Clinton\u2019s presidency, is Monica Lewinsky. That\u2019s a shame: I am convinced that Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s cattle-futures shenanigans were in fact a much more serious offense as a matter of public corruption. But most people don\u2019t understand futures trading. Everybody understands diddling the interns. Nobody understands finance. Everybody understands sex. <\/p>\n<p>(Except Objectivists.) <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why financial scandals rarely end political careers, but sex scandals often do, especially for Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>Kevin D. Williamson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/446782\/trumps-travel-expenses-are-non-issue\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fanciful Trump &#8216;Scandals'&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you say \u201cClinton scandal,\u201d the first thing that comes to mind for most people, at least for those of us old enough to have been around for Bill Clinton\u2019s presidency, is Monica Lewinsky. That\u2019s a shame: I am convinced that Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s cattle-futures shenanigans were in fact a much more serious offense as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":""},"categories":[831,57,53,41,13],"tags":[669,363,670,68,413],"class_list":["post-38225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-billclinton","tag-corruption","tag-hillaryclinton","tag-objectivism","tag-scandal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Wx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38226,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38225\/revisions\/38226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}