{"id":1299,"date":"2007-09-11T07:34:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T12:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2007-09-11T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T14:47:30","slug":"the-imp-of-the-perverse-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"The Imp Of The Perverse Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I figure – if Chad can have a “younger brother” who gets to say all the outrageous stuff over on Fraters<\/a>, why shouldn’t I?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I got this email today from my evil twin, Jed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I, like Mitch, am the foremost proponent of Free Speech you will ever meet (which makes sense, since – unlike all the lefties who’ve been caterwauling about “civil liberties” for the past seven years –\u00a0mine, like Mitch’s as a talk show host, are legitimately under attack).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Government should exert no restraint on reasonable free speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But I have to ask; if Rodney King got whacked a hundred-odd times with billy clubs and batons for driving while black and high and lippy, couldn’t one <\/em>capitol cop have spared one <\/em>lousy whack upside the head of those shrieking, narcissistic crones who profaned Congress by shrieking their gibberish, yesterday?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Just one little smack<\/em> across the face?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cuz I’d send the guy’s defense fund a couple of hundred bucks just to see it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again – that is my Evil Twin Jed speaking.\u00a0 Jed and I don’t see eye to eye on everything.\u00a0 But, evil though he may be, he’s my twin brother.<\/p>\n

MITCH ADDS: While I’ve never been an Ike Skelton fan, I have to give him points for this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The protesters “really p\u2014- me off,” Skelton said, further characterizing them as “ass\u2014\u2014s.” Rep. Duncan Hunter, the ranking Republican on the committee, then leaned over and drew Skelton into quieter conversation farther from the microphone, leaving Skelton’s further phraseology to the arena only of informed speculation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bonus:\u00a0 you won’t hear the Republicans getting stricken with theatrical vapours for the next four years over Skelton’s remarks, as the Dems still are over Cheney’s equally-justifiable quip re Patrick Leahy (to whom Cheney’s advice still largely applies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I figure – if Chad can have a “younger brother” who gets to say all the outrageous stuff over on Fraters, why shouldn’t I? Anyway, I got this email today from my evil twin, Jed.\u00a0 I, like Mitch, am the foremost proponent of Free Speech you will ever meet (which makes sense, since – unlike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,43,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-mitchs-evil-twin-jed","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","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=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}