{"id":28134,"date":"2012-05-29T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28134"},"modified":"2012-05-29T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T22:32:34","slug":"literal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28134","title":{"rendered":"Literal"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s become one of my pet peeves – the epidemic misuse of the word “literal”. \u00a0It was sent up here…:<\/p>\n

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…and yes, I see myself as the crazy guy. Because the comic isn’t just comedy; it’s a bit of journalism.\u00a0<\/a>Liberal bobblehead Congresswoman Gwen Moore, appearing on the Ed Schultz show, with emphasis added, speaking about the GOP Womens Caucus:<\/p>\n

MOORE: And so they are as battered, they are literally battered women in that caucus<\/strong>. Time and again, they’ve been forced to vote against the interests of women and the consequences for not voting with the Republican Party are great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Battered women”.<\/p>\n

As in, hit with bats? Punched?<\/p>\n

I mean, you just, male or female, just look at Dick Lugar who cooperated with the president. Or I’m thinking of Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), who was in that video. She had a primary and was beaten in a primary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The new Democrat Party: not being one of us is a mental condition”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s become one of my pet peeves – the epidemic misuse of the word “literal”. \u00a0It was sent up here…: …and yes, I see myself as the crazy guy. Because the comic isn’t just comedy; it’s a bit of journalism.\u00a0Liberal bobblehead Congresswoman Gwen Moore, appearing on the Ed Schultz show, with emphasis added, speaking about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28134","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=28134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28152,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28134\/revisions\/28152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}