{"id":10821,"date":"2010-05-10T06:15:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10821"},"modified":"2010-05-09T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:15:25","slug":"obama-information-is-ignorance-peasants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10821","title":{"rendered":"Obama: &#8220;Information Is Ignorance, Peasants&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hcoyG-Ck3-VwZB7fqpUFXbffoObg\">condemns ubiquitous dissent:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You&#8217;re coming of age in a 24\/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don&#8217;t always rank all that high on the truth meter,&#8221; Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<em>Like &#8220;the only reason not to support Obama is his skin color?&#8221; &#8211; Ed<\/em>]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, &#8212; none of which I know how to work &#8212; information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation,&#8221; Obama said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What an incredibly illogical statement &#8211; unless by &#8220;empowerment&#8221;, he means government power.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He bemoaned the fact that &#8220;some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction,&#8221; in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the President doesn&#8217;t trust the peasants with all of that crazy infomacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President condemns ubiquitous dissent: &#8220;You&#8217;re coming of age in a 24\/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don&#8217;t always rank all that high on the truth meter,&#8221; Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia. [Like &#8220;the only reason not to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10823,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions\/10823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}