{"id":19,"date":"2006-11-07T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/07\/the-state-of-liberalism-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T06:55:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T12:55:13","slug":"the-state-of-liberalism-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"The State of &#8220;Liberalism&#8221;, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ward Sutton &#8211; of whom it can be charitably said &#8220;he&#8217;s better than Ken Avidor&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/citypages.com\/databank\/27\/1353\/article14857.asp\">on this year&#8217;s campaign<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.citypages.com\/imagebank\/articles\/27_1353\/27_1353a14857_m.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two gay jokes and a portrayal of Christians as idiots  (And <em>please <\/em>don&#8217;t bother saying &#8220;noooo &#8211; that&#8217;s what <em>Republicans <\/em>are thinking&#8221;).  Has anyone noticed that there&#8217;s been vastly more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/005157.html\">gay-bashing &#8220;Humor&#8221; from Democrats<\/a> than credible Republicans lately?  How must that play at &#8220;Stonewall DFL&#8221; meetings?  &#8220;We&#8217;re doing it for your own good?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Dems may &#8220;win&#8221; this election (although anything less than a forty-seat pickup in the House and ten in the Senate is a defeat, really, given the way this election<em>  should<\/em> have gone for them), but I think this shows why they&#8217;re going to lose the nation, sooner or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ward Sutton &#8211; of whom it can be charitably said &#8220;he&#8217;s better than Ken Avidor&#8221; &#8211; on this year&#8217;s campaign: Two gay jokes and a portrayal of Christians as idiots (And please don&#8217;t bother saying &#8220;noooo &#8211; that&#8217;s what Republicans are thinking&#8221;). Has anyone noticed that there&#8217;s been vastly more gay-bashing &#8220;Humor&#8221; from Democrats than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","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=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}