{"id":1810,"date":"2015-03-27T06:46:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T06:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/11\/06\/lapdog-memory-lapse-ezra-klein-surprised-by-something-completely-unsurprising\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T06:46:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T06:46:41","slug":"lapdog-memory-lapse-ezra-klein-surprised-by-somethingunsurprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/1810","title":{"rendered":"Lapdog memory lapse: Ezra Klein surprised by something&nbsp;unsurprising"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/398183353297666048\n<p>President Obama has a track record of finding out about controversial things from “news reports,” (for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/13\/hogwash-president-liar-pants-claims-he-heard-about-irs-targeting-conservatives-from-news\/\">the IRS scandal<\/a>). That’s why nobody should be shocked that the Obama administration is claiming they found out about the HealthCare.gov disaster from news reports as well. However, the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein was nevertheless surprised:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ezraklein\/status\/398181800323080192\n<p>Guess Klein was also surprised when the sun came up in the east this morning. <\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ThePantau\/status\/398183503281389568\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JammieWF\/status\/398183129883492352\n<p>Or, maybe there’s nothing wrong with it at all, as Nick Searcy pointed out:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/yesnicksearcy\/status\/398191340145479680\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/27\/good-times-mickey-kaus-flashes-back-to-ezra-kleins-insurance-premium-guarantee\/\">&lsquo;Good times&rsquo;: Mickey Kaus flashes back to Ezra Klein&rsquo;s insurance premium guarantee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/24\/synced-spin-ezra-klein-others-gop-sabotaging-obamacare-well-then-proceed\/\">Synced spin! Ezra Klein, others: GOP &lsquo;sabotaging&rsquo; Obamacare; Well, then: &lsquo;Proceed&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/17\/out-of-this-world-perspective-look-at-what-more-people-have-signed-up-for-than-o-care-ezra-klein\/\">Out of this world perspective: Look at what more people have signed up for than O-care, Ezra Klein!<\/a><\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/11\/06\/lapdog-memory-lapse-ezra-klein-surprised-by-something-completely-unsurprising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/11\/06\/lapdog-memory-lapse-ezra-klein-surprised-by-something-completely-unsurprising\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/398183353297666048 President Obama has a track record of finding out about controversial things from “news reports,” (for example, the IRS scandal). That’s why nobody should be shocked that the Obama administration is claiming they found out about the HealthCare.gov disaster from news reports as well. However, the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein was nevertheless surprised: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ezraklein\/status\/398181800323080192 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/1810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lapdog memory lapse: Ezra Klein surprised by something&nbsp;unsurprising<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14274280013762-ezra_klein_mug-e1403705717871.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}