{"id":17537,"date":"2011-01-20T07:02:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17537"},"modified":"2011-01-20T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T15:42:19","slug":"hows-all-that-civility-talk-going-for-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17537","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s All That Civility Talk Going For Ya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2011\/01\/abc-news-jonathan-karl-reports-the-newfound-civility-didnt-last-long-political-rhetoric-in-congress-doesnt-get-much.html\">compares Obamacare repealers to Nazis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey say it&#8217;s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,&#8221; Cohen said. &#8220;You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it.\u00a0 Like blood libel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me take a moment to say that Governor Palin was ever-so-slightly in error, calling the attacks on her (implying that her rhetoric caused the Tucson shooting) a &#8220;blood libel&#8221;. \u00a0The term she may have been looking for was &#8220;gutless slander by a bunch of worthless, cowardly scumbags&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it&#8211;believed it and you have the Holocaust.\u00a0 We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care.\u00a0 Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover,&#8221; Cohen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, &#8220;Politifact&#8221;&#8216;s story about &#8220;The Biggest Lie&#8221; was, in fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2010\/12\/17\/politifacts-biggest-lie\/\">the biggest lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And Steve Cohen needs to join his Democrat friends in retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen compares Obamacare repealers to Nazis: \u201cThey say it&#8217;s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,&#8221; Cohen said. &#8220;You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it.\u00a0 Like blood libel. Let me take a moment to say that Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537","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=17537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17546,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537\/revisions\/17546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}