{"id":10136,"date":"2009-09-24T02:03:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T02:03:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-24T02:03:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T02:03:25","slug":"stockton-record-mike-fitzgerald-takes-on-sean-hannity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/24\/stockton-record-mike-fitzgerald-takes-on-sean-hannity\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockton Record: Mike Fitzgerald takes on Sean Hannity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was please to read <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kksss3\">Mike Fitzgerald&#8217;s column<\/a> in the Stockton Record today. &nbsp;He rather showed Hannity for what we know him to be, a blithering idiot who will say anything that he gets paid to say. Here is a taste: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where to begin? Hannity&#8217;s show was set in a cotton farm outside Huron. The farm is fallow for lack of water. The Grapes of Wrath, Part II: The Joads of Huron.<\/p>\n<p>Only those ignorant of the oceanic amounts of water needed to farm cotton are oblivious to the irony. If water&#8217;s scarce, cotton shouldn&#8217;t even be farmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turn the water back on!&#8221; Hannity intoned over and over, sounding like Moses crying &#8220;Let my people go!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the water has been &#8220;turned on&#8221; since June 30. Last Sunday &#8211; to cite a typical day &#8211; the state and federal pumps exported 13,626 acre-feet of water from the Delta.<\/p>\n<p>The pumps sucked hard enough to make Old River, Middle River and the San Joaquin River at Stockton flow backwards. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Read it yourself. &nbsp;It is much better in a San Joaquin Valley paper. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was please to read <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kksss3\">Mike Fitzgerald&#8217;s column<\/a> in the Stockton Record today. &nbsp;He rather showed Hannity for what we know him to be, a blithering idiot who will say anything that he gets paid to say. Here is a taste: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where to begin? Hannity&#8217;s show was set in a cotton farm outside Huron. The farm is fallow for lack of water. The Grapes of Wrath, Part II: The Joads of Huron.<\/p>\n<p>Only those ignorant of the oceanic amounts of water needed to farm cotton are oblivious to the irony. If water&#8217;s scarce, cotton shouldn&#8217;t even be farmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turn the water back on!&#8221; Hannity intoned over and over, sounding like Moses crying &#8220;Let my people go!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the water has been &#8220;turned on&#8221; since June 30. Last Sunday &#8211; to cite a typical day &#8211; the state and federal pumps exported 13,626 acre-feet of water from the Delta.<\/p>\n<p>The pumps sucked hard enough to make Old River, Middle River and the San Joaquin River at Stockton flow backwards. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Read it yourself. &nbsp;It is much better in a San Joaquin Valley paper. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[7227,7885,1618],"class_list":["post-10136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-7227","tag-7885","tag-1618"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}