{"id":2466,"date":"2008-04-22T05:03:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2008-04-21T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T14:42:50","slug":"tone-deaf-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"Tone-Deaf Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that after &#8220;Crackerquiddick&#8221;, the Obama campaign would learn to tread lightly around the beliefs of most of us bitter, gun-totin&#8217; Jesus freaks in the midwest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoptheaclu.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/21\/obama-tech-advisor-introduces-video-of-gay-singing-jesus-who-gets-hit-by-a-bus\/\">Well<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Erick Erickson over at RedState tells us all of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/stories\/elections\/2008\/obama_and_googles_mutual_adviser_jesus_is_gay_wears_a_diaper_and_gets_run_over\" target=\"_blank\">an anti-Christian video<\/a> recently introduced with great frivolity by Internet philosopher and Obama technology advisor Larry Lessig. The video introduced at a Google Author series seminar shows Jesus singing the Gloria Gaynor tune \u201cI Will Survive\u201d in a very effeminate, theatrical way. As the song ramps up, Jesus throws off his robe and strips down to a diaper-like covering, then he sashays through a modern city until he gets hit by a bus in an intersection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Larry who?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Again, as Erickson points out, \u201cBarack Obama\u2019s campaign has <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/community\/post\/www.raphaelholomanfranklinsupportObama08.com\/C59c\" target=\"_blank\">regularly cited Lessig as a key supporter<\/a> on technology issues (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/2007\/11\/14\/experts_praise_barack_obamas_t.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> too) and made sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/2007\/11\/15\/tech_leaders_announce_support.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lessig was quoted<\/a> when listing Obama\u2019s technology endorsers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that after &#8220;Crackerquiddick&#8221;, the Obama campaign would learn to tread lightly around the beliefs of most of us bitter, gun-totin&#8217; Jesus freaks in the midwest. Well&#8230; Erick Erickson over at RedState tells us all of an anti-Christian video recently introduced with great frivolity by Internet philosopher and Obama technology advisor Larry Lessig. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","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=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}