{"id":2689,"date":"2004-07-19T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T03:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/oh-snap-its-getting-kind-of-hectic-up-in-this-piece\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:53:40","slug":"oh-snap-its-getting-kind-of-hectic-up-in-this-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/oh-snap-its-getting-kind-of-hectic-up-in-this-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, snap! It&#8217;s getting kind of hectic up in this piece."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10546,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newyorker.com\\\/shouts\\\/content\\\/?040726sh_shouts&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20140718194928\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.newyorker.com\\\/shouts\\\/content\\\/?040726sh_shouts&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:15:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 17:08:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 17:08:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10547,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org\\\/remainder\\\/04\\\/07\\\/6042.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050925191452\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org:80\\\/remainder\\\/04\\\/07\\\/6042.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:15:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 17:08:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 17:08:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This may be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/shouts\/content\/?040726sh_shouts\" title=\"NEW DETAILS SURFACE\">funniest thing I&#8217;ve read lately<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  At this point, according to observers, both statesmen decided&#8212;by seemingly unspoken mutual consent&#8212;to abandon the gutter patois of the common carnival worker and to resort instead to an eminently more quotable (but, to those not versed in the vagaries of hip-hop idiom, more confusing) exchange of viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s like that?&#8221; Mr.\u00a0Cheney queried.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Whut? Whut?&#8221; Mr.\u00a0Leahy shot back.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Once again,&#8221; Mr.\u00a0Cheney replied (quite obviously quoting a lyric from Ice Cube&#8217;s 1990 album, &#8220;AmeriKKKa&#8217;s Most Wanted&#8221;), &#8220;it&#8217;s on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  As a quick-thinking senatorial aide switched on the Senate&#8217;s public-address system and cued up the infamous &#8220;Seven Minutes of Funk&#8221; break, Mr.\u00a0Leahy and Mr.\u00a0Cheney went head-to-head in what can only be described as a &#8220;take no prisoners&#8221; freestyle rap battle.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/04\/07\/6042.html\" title=\"Dick Cheney and Pat Leahy square off on the Senate floor\">kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point, according to observers, both statesmen decided\u2014by seemingly unspoken mutual consent\u2014to abandon the gutter patois of the common carnival worker and to resort instead to an eminently more quotable (but, to those not versed in the vagaries of hip-hop idiom, more confusing) exchange of viewpoints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[6,14],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}