{"id":22752,"date":"2011-09-08T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22752"},"modified":"2011-09-08T07:36:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T12:36:43","slug":"playing-the-administrations-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22752","title":{"rendered":"Playing The Administration&#8217;s Tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gibson.com\/Gibson.aspx\">Gibson Musical Instrument<\/a> Corp. CEO Henry Juszkiewicz will be at President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Jobs&#8221; speech tonight, to remind His Excellency and the assembled, adoring media that the Administration&#8217;s politicized, idiotic policies &#8211; enforcing an arcane <em>Indian <\/em>law &#8211;\u00a0are going to cost the company millions of dollars, and if followed through will cost the Nashville area 40 skilled, high-paying manufacturing jobs.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gibson.com\/Products\/Electric-Guitars\/Les-Paul\/Gibson-Custom\/Eric-Clapton-1960-Les-Paul.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarinternational.com\/files\/2011\/01\/IMG_2353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-up of the new re-issue &quot;Eric Clapton 1960 Les Paul&quot;. Hint, Santa.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In solidarity with Gibson, I&#8217;ll supply them some free advertising.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-8dIjZrCM1HI\/TlfEJjGbuGI\/AAAAAAAAFRU\/e8IChL1k_Hg\/s400\/11094-gibson_les_paul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Freaking Rosewood, Administration Byatches!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I do endorse Gibson guitars (although, to be fair, most guitar players do &#8211; even lifelong Fender guys like me; I finally took the plunge on a Gibson product last year, and yeah, it&#8217;s niiiice).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gibson.com\/Products\/Electric-Guitars\/Firebird\/Epiphone.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonicftp.com\/news\/images\/epiphone_firebird2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oooh - Gibson provides jobs all over the world!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gateway Pundit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2011\/09\/gibson-ceo-will-be-at-obama-jobs-speech-says-federal-raid-will-cost-company-10-million\/\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz told reporters today that the federal raid on the popular American guitar maker will cost the company $10,000,000. Juszkiewicz also said that he will attend Obama\u2019s big spending jobs speech tomorrow in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gibson.com\/Products\/Acoustic-Instruments\/Super-Jumbo\/Gibson-Acoustic.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andybabiuksfabgear.com\/wp-content\/themes\/lavan\/timthumb.php?src=http:\/\/andybabiuksfabgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GibsonJ200SB1.jpg&amp;w=670\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is that a gorgeous piece of work or what? It sounds even better than it looks. And guess what? Yep - made in the USA. One of those &quot;American Manufacturing Jobs&quot; that lefties are constantly barbering about. Outsource this? Why not outsource guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns to the Pakistani military, while you&#39;re at it?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Attorney General Eric Holder said the raid on the Gibson was not political.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if you believe Holder <del>you are an idiot<\/del> here&#8217;s an excellent Fox News clip summing up the entire story so far.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VjvPdHqpgfM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"367\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Remember &#8211; the CEO of Martin guitars (sorry &#8211; while they make gorgeous guitars, and I also own a Martin product, they get no free ads from me), which builds guitars out of <em>exactly the same Indian-grown, American-finished rosewood as Gibson<\/em>, which is not illegal under US law and only vaguely-sanctioned under Indian law, is a big Democrat contributor.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gibson.com\/Products\/Electric-Guitars\/ES\/Gibson-Custom.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikedemicco.com\/images\/instruments\/gibson_es335-rot45.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Gibson ES335. A favorite of both jazz musicians and loud rockers who like the ES&#39; excellent feedback characteristics.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course, Gibson is just one of many such stories &#8211; companies being harried, money being confiscated, jobs being destroyed by our rapacious, power-mad bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gibson.com\/en-us\/Divisions\/Gibson%20Gear\/Pickups\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31GeO4TTVlL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yep, there&#39;s parts, too. This is a Gibspon &quot;Soap Bar&quot;. I have one sunk into the middle position of my Fender Jazz, wired out of phase with the bridge pickup; when they play together, it sounds more like Mark Knopfler&#39;s Strat (think &quot;Sultans of Swing&quot;) than Mark Knopfler&#39;s Strat does.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m working to get Mr. Juskiewicz on the Northern Alliance one of these next few weekends. \u00a0Keep your fingers crossed; if you&#8217;re a fan of limited government <em>or <\/em>music, it&#8217;ll be a great chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gibson Musical Instrument Corp. CEO Henry Juszkiewicz will be at President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Jobs&#8221; speech tonight, to remind His Excellency and the assembled, adoring media that the Administration&#8217;s politicized, idiotic policies &#8211; enforcing an arcane Indian law &#8211;\u00a0are going to cost the company millions of dollars, and if followed through will cost the Nashville area 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,68,30,14,64,51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-liberty","category-music","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752","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=22752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22753,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752\/revisions\/22753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}