{"id":2587,"date":"2008-05-20T06:05:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2008-05-19T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T15:39:03","slug":"bring-back-the-goons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back The Goons!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My little-known evil twin Jed writes:<\/p>\n

When\u00a0Mitch and I were kids, our teachers used to tell us – threatening the President, even as a\u00a0 joke, was a bad idea; the Secret Service was always watching for these things.\u00a0 Our fourth grade teacher, Miss Walburn,\u00a0told us the story about\u00a0the kid who’d written\u00a0a joking threat to President Nixon, and gotten a visit from the Secret Service.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Last Sunday I watched Family Guy.\u00a0 <\/em>It was the episode where Stewie takes over the world, and Lois sets out to kill him.<\/p>\n

The “climactic” scene is a battle between the two in the Oval Office<\/a>.\u00a0 In one scene, Lois, firing a Minigun a la <\/em>Jesse Ventura in Predator<\/em>, chases Stewie with a stream of bullets along a wall of presidential portraits, leaving a stream of bullet holes in the pics of the last seven or eight presidents, as the “camera” “pans” along.<\/p>\n

Then the shot stops when we get to George W. Bush’s portrait, with two or three holes in it.\u00a0 Lois stops, pauses, and fires a long burst that obliterates the portrait.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, while I am second only to Mitch in my support for real freedom of speech, isn’t this sort of scene covered by some <\/em>kind of law?\u00a0 Couldn’t the Secret Service grab Seth McFarlane just for a little?\u00a0 Maybe rough him up for a while?\u00a0 Knock out a few teeth with a tire iron or something?<\/p>\n

I mean, remembering the vapors the media got over even the most trivial “threat” against Clinton, and the conspiracy-mongering they do and the “climates of hate” they find – nothing?<\/p>\n

Just a question for your readers, Mitch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a reason we call him my “evil twin”, of course. I don’t necessarily endorse everything Jed says.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My little-known evil twin Jed writes: When\u00a0Mitch and I were kids, our teachers used to tell us – threatening the President, even as a\u00a0 joke, was a bad idea; the Secret Service was always watching for these things.\u00a0 Our fourth grade teacher, Miss Walburn,\u00a0told us the story about\u00a0the kid who’d written\u00a0a joking threat to President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-mitchs-evil-twin-jed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","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=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}