{"id":60469,"date":"2014-11-21T12:49:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60469"},"modified":"2014-11-22T18:39:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T02:39:38","slug":"what-does-it-mean-when-the-nyt-says-a-woman-is-extremely-close-to-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60469","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean When The NYT Says A Woman Is &#8216;Extremely Close&#8217; To President Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a New York Times <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/22\/us\/politics\/as-democrats-work-to-unify-a-top-reid-aide-causes-a-rift.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\">article<\/a> about David Krone, Harry Reid&#8217;s top aide, and I see this: &#8220;Mr. Krone\u2019s wife, Alyssa Mastromonaco, a former West Wing staff member who is extremely close to the president&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean when the New York Times says a young woman &#8216;<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/09\/us\/politics\/long-wielding-power-behind-the-scenes-now-taking-her-leave.html\">is extremely close to the president<\/a>&#8216;?<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I would take that to mean that the president was banging her but I did a Google image search on &#8220;<A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Alyssa+Mastromonaco&#038;rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS601US601&#038;es_sm=122&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=iqNvVPWUGITvoASjl4LIDg&#038;ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&#038;biw=930&#038;bih=524\">Alyssa Mastromonaco<\/a>&#8221; and decided no way. <\/p>\n<p>Obama seems asexual to me, perhaps <A HREF=\"http:\/\/justnotsaid.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/is-obama-gay.html\">gay<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post once <A HREF=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=goAxRblMWT4C&#038;pg=PA34&#038;lpg=PA34&#038;dq=washington+post+president+bush+%22in+a+variety+of+positions%22&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=hIlezW579e&#038;sig=93GdasbyP4ubjSBnv0RcOipOO0c&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=nqVvVJS6HoX0oASZzID4Dw&#038;ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&#038;q=washington%20post%20president%20bush%20%22in%20a%20variety%20of%20positions%22&#038;f=false\">noted<\/a> about Jennifer A. Fitzgerald that she served President George H. Bush &#8220;in a variety of positions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a New York Times article about David Krone, Harry Reid&#8217;s top aide, and I see this: &#8220;Mr. Krone\u2019s wife, Alyssa Mastromonaco, a former West Wing staff member who is extremely close to the president&#8230;&#8221; What does it mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adultery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60475,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60469\/revisions\/60475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}