{"id":2270,"date":"2005-09-23T14:44:45","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2270"},"modified":"2005-09-23T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T20:40:47","slug":"goyals_toils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/23\/goyals_toils\/","title":{"rendered":"Goyal&#8217;s toils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/media_player\/play.jhtml?itemId=23365&#038;poppedFrom=_shows_the_daily_show_videos_most_recent_index.jhtml&#038;\"><img alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/GoyalTheFoil.jpg\" align=left vspace=10 border=0><\/a>Raghubir <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001838.html\">Goyal the Foil<\/a>, the One-Track Uncle called on by White House press secretaries to evade tough questioning, shows up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/media_player\/play.jhtml?itemId=23365&#038;poppedFrom=_shows_the_daily_show_videos_most_recent_index.jhtml&#038;\">a <em>Daily Show<\/em> segment<\/a>. &#8216;Go ahead, Goyal,&#8217; says the spokesman.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8216;My question is in connection with the Prime Minister of India&#8217;s visit on Monday&#8230;&#8217; he begins, sidetracking the preceding questions about domestic politics. Old faithful.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/media_player\/play.jhtml?itemId=23365&#038;poppedFrom=_shows_the_daily_show_videos_most_recent_index.jhtml&#038;\">Watch the clip<\/a>, he&#8217;s at 4:29.<\/p>\n\n<p>Keep watching to see the other reliable escape hatch. Lester Kinsolving is the resident crank from WCBM Radio. A female reporter sits behind him, smirking and exchanging looks with other reporters while he asks a long, bizarre question about whether Dubya agrees with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constantine_I_of_the_Roman_Empire\">emperor Constantine&#8217;s<\/a> fourth-century Christian theology.<\/p>\n\n<p>Dude, have a little respect. I think we can safely assume&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\">POTUS<\/a> knows about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0360486\/\"><em>Constantine<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>It had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002136.html\">Rachel Weisz<\/a> and Keanu Reeves and, like, totally rawked.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001838.html\">Previous post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raghubir Goyal the Foil, the One-Track Uncle called on by White House press secretaries to evade tough questioning, shows up in a Daily Show segment. &#8216;Go ahead, Goyal,&#8217; says the spokesman. &#8216;My question is in connection with the Prime Minister &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/23\/goyals_toils\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}