{"id":2666,"date":"2005-09-13T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:12:33","slug":"new-heights-in-senatorial-inquisition-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/13\/new-heights-in-senatorial-inquisition-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"New Heights in Senatorial Inquisition Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herb &#8220;The Helmet&#8221; Kohl stands upon the shoulders of giants during the Roberts confirmation hearings when he echoes philosopher William Martin Joel during a harangue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/apwashington_story.asp?category=1154&#038;slug=Roberts%20Transcripts%205\" target=\"_new\">Semator Kohl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Justice, after all, may be blind, but it should not be deaf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Billy Joel<\/b>, from the video for &#8220;Keeping the Faith&#8221; ca 1983-1984:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your honor, they say justice is blind, but I sure hope it ain&#8217;t deaf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Quote first seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/roberts-confirmation-hearing.html\" target=\"_new\">Ann Althouse<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herb &#8220;The Helmet&#8221; Kohl stands upon the shoulders of giants during the Roberts confirmation hearings when he echoes philosopher William Martin Joel during a harangue. Semator Kohl: Justice, after all, may be blind, but it should not be deaf. Billy Joel, from the video for &#8220;Keeping the Faith&#8221; ca 1983-1984: Your honor, they say justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19215,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions\/19215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}