{"id":59,"date":"2017-01-14T15:07:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2017-01-18T22:44:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T03:44:25","slug":"pat-buchanan-turns-down-hannity-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Pat Buchanan turns down offer to be Hannity co-host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV journeyman political pundit Pat Buchanan recently turned down an opportunity to co-host an hour-long nightly news show on the FOX Network with Sean Hannity, apparently miffed at the network&#8217;s plan to call the show, Hannity &amp; Comb Over.<\/p>\n<p>FOX, under fire for retreating from its pledge to be fair and balanced by allowing its irate Irishman to appear nightly without a co-host, had planned to tout the new show&#8217;s even-handedness by pairing a commentator from the far right with a co-host holding views from left field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad it didn&#8217;t happen,&#8221; said Morning Joe co-host, Joe Scarborough. &#8220;We&#8217;d have had to replace him on our show with Glenn Beck, and he&#8217;d make Mika cry every other day.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=washingtonweak\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV journeyman political pundit Pat Buchanan recently turned down an opportunity to co-host an hour-long nightly news [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[15,14,16],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}