{"id":3204,"date":"2008-12-06T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/06\/bailouts-explained\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T09:55:08","slug":"bailouts-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/06\/bailouts-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailouts Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, if you want penetrating analysis of the news, you need to go to a comedian. Jon Stewart explains why Congress is willing to bail out Wall Street, but not Detroit:<\/p>\n<style type='text\/css'>.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/comedycentral\/video\/assets\/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}<\/style>\n<div class='cc_box' style='position:relative'><a href='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com' target='_blank' style='display:inline; float:left; width:60px; height:31px;'><\/p>\n<div class='cc_home' style='float:left; border:solid 1px #cfcfcf; border-width:1px 0px 0px 1px; width:60px; height:31px; background:url(\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/comedycentral\/video\/assets\/syndicated-logo-out.png\");'><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<div style='font:bold 10px Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; float:left; width:299px; height:31px; border:solid 1px #cfcfcf; border-width:1px 1px 0px 0px; overflow:hidden; color:#707070;'>\n<div class='cc_show' style='position:relative; background-color:#e5e5e5;padding-left:3px; height:14px; padding-top:2px; overflow:hidden;'><a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/' target='_blank'>The Daily Show With Jon Stewart<\/a><span style='position:absolute; top:2px; right:3px;'>M &#8211; Th 11p \/ 10c<\/span><\/div>\n<div class='cc_title' style='font-size:11px; color:#868686; background-color:#f5f5f5; padding:3px; padding-top:1px; line-height:14px; height:21px; overflow:hidden;'><a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?videoId=212877&#038;title=autoerotic-explanation' target='_blank'>Autoerotic Explanation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><embed style='float:left; clear:left;' src='http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:212877' width='360' height='301' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'><\/embed><\/p>\n<div class='cc_links' style='float:left; clear:left; width:358px; border:solid 1px #cfcfcf; border-top:0px; font:10px Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; color:#b9b9b9; background-color:#f5f5f5;'>\n<div style='width:177px; float:left; padding-left:3px;'><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?videoId=166515&#038;title=Barack-Obama-Pt.-1'>Barack Obama Interview<\/a><br \/><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?videoId=167938&#038;title=John-McCain-Pt.-1'>John McCain Interview<\/a><\/div>\n<div style='width:177px; float:left;'><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?searchterm=Sarah+Palin&#038;searchtype=site&#038;x=0&#038;y=0'>Sarah Palin Video<\/a><br \/><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?searchterm=indecision+2008&#038;searchtype=site&#038;x=0&#038;y=0'>Funny Election Video<\/a><\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of sad that this is one of the best arguments I&#8217;ve heard for giving the car companies the money they want.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(As an aside, Comedy Central&#8217;s embed code for their video player is just about the ugliest thing ever. 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Jon Stewart explains why Congress is willing to bail out Wall Street, but not Detroit: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM &#8211; Th 11p \/ 10c Autoerotic Explanation Barack Obama InterviewJohn McCain Interview Sarah Palin VideoFunny Election Video&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/06\/bailouts-explained\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bailouts Explained<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,28,81,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_issues","category-politics","category-economics_1","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}