{"id":2713,"date":"2008-06-16T05:04:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T10:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2008-06-16T06:28:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T11:28:05","slug":"but-dont-you-dare-call-the-left-unpatriotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"But Don&#8217;t You <i>Dare<\/i> Call The Left Unpatriotic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gore Vidal &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/15\/magazine\/15wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=1&#038;ref=magazine&#038;oref=slogin\">Vietnam Truther<\/a>! (Emphasis added by me)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>And what about Mr. McCain?<\/strong> Disaster. Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? <em><strong>Where does that come from, aside from himself<\/strong><\/em>? About his suffering in the prison war camp?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone knows he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.<\/strong> That\u2019s what he tells us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why would you doubt him?<\/strong> He\u2019s a graduate of  Annapolis. I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. Remember, I\u2019m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what does that have to do with the U.S. Naval Academy down in Annapolis?<\/strong> The service universities keep track of each other, that\u2019s all. They have views about each other. And they are very aware of social class and eventually money, since they usually marry it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah.  It&#8217;s all about the frat you were in!<\/p>\n<p>Remember &#8211; Gore Vidal is a <em>serious commentator<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gore Vidal &#8211; Vietnam Truther! (Emphasis added by me) And what about Mr. McCain? Disaster. Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp? Everyone knows he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. That\u2019s what he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}