{"id":22757,"date":"2011-09-09T07:36:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22757"},"modified":"2011-09-09T07:36:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:36:48","slug":"powerchord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22757","title":{"rendered":"Powerchord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gibson Musical Instruments Corp. CEO Henry Juszkiewicz\u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/276728\/gibson-ceo-slams-big-liberal-obama-robert-costa\">smacked Obama and his speech with a big piece of rosewood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201dHe\u2019s a government fan,\u201d he says. \u201cHe has a problem with successful businesses. He thinks they\u2019re the problem, that they shouldn\u2019t be quite as successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is using the levers of government to not only redistribute, but to penalize,\u201d he adds. \u201cI see a difference between what he said and what he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300;\">\u201cWe\u2019re under attack,\u201d Juskiewicz says. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty interesting to see that one of the points in Obama\u2019s speech was to cut back regulation and promote jobs, when, in fact, he\u2019s done just the opposite&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The splash Obama&#8217;s made about &#8220;cutting regulation&#8221; is, of course, purely potemkin &#8211; or as that other Gibson player, John Lennon, once noted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gibson.com\/Products\/Acoustic-Instruments\/Round-Shoulder\/Gibson-Acoustic\/John-Lennon-J-160E-Peace\/Features.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/62bc8c47-3601-4f10-b752-0eff1671a2f8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gibson &quot;John Lennon&quot;, modeled after one of Lennon&#39;s old instruments<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s one (cut regulation) for you, nineteen for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gibson Musical Instruments Corp. CEO Henry Juszkiewicz\u00a0via\u00a0smacked Obama and his speech with a big piece of rosewood: \u201dHe\u2019s a government fan,\u201d he says. \u201cHe has a problem with successful businesses. He thinks they\u2019re the problem, that they shouldn\u2019t be quite as successful.\u201d \u201cHe is using the levers of government to not only redistribute, but to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,64,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-president-obama","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757","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=22757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22760,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757\/revisions\/22760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}