{"id":2237,"date":"2010-04-21T20:33:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T03:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2010-04-21T20:33:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T03:33:32","slug":"facts-with-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/04\/21\/facts-with-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts with benefits."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fictional Malcolm Tucker, from the masterful show <a href=http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/1982>The Thick of It<\/a>, is <a href=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/mar\/12\/malcolm-tucker-election-briefing>blogging<\/a> about the real UK election for the Guardian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, as we know, the various polling organisations use different methodology. Mori and Populus phone people, YouGov use an internet panel, and I believe some of the cheaper outfits prefer throwing a spanner in the street and then getting the lunk it takes out to put his finger on one of three colours when he wakes up in casualty. As you know, I prefer to conduct my own polling by the means of ripping chickens apart, and reading the tea leaves I have force-fed them. And what this is telling me is that however well we think we&#8217;re doing, we are currently located midway up shit creek, in the vicinity of the hamlet of Nofuckingpaddles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a HREF=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/apr\/09\/bottom-feeders-battlefield-cider-potheads>This<\/a> post, about their first TV debate, and how little it matters, is just one of its great achievements. <\/p>\n<p>See also Matt Taibbi and the late Hunter S. Thompson.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fictional Malcolm Tucker, from the masterful show The Thick of It, is blogging about the real UK election for the Guardian: Now, as we know, the various polling organisations use different methodology. Mori and Populus phone people, YouGov use an internet panel, and I believe some of the cheaper outfits prefer throwing a spanner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}