{"id":3558,"date":"2008-10-29T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2008-12-07T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T19:00:23","slug":"barney-franks-wiener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3558","title":{"rendered":"Barney Frank&#8217;s Wiener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barney Frank has been the recent target of conservative attacks and of course the McCain campaign of late because he represents the absolute worst in congress today. Unapologetic liberalism: tax and spend; weaken our military by cutting funding.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, Barney is trying to turn the tables, and appear the victim; play the minority card; as if anyone cares what he does with his wiener.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2008\/10\/29\/frank_is_new_target_of_mccain_on_the_trail\/\">&#8220;I&#8217;m flattered by this,&#8221; said Frank<\/a>, who is gay. &#8220;But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m the  single most important member of the House after Nancy Pelosi. There are also a  lot of straight white men who are committee chairmen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCain&#8217;s chief speechwriter, Mark Salter, shook his head when asked to  respond. &#8220;We&#8217;re bringing him up for his quotes,&#8221; said Salter. &#8220;We&#8217;re prejudiced  against wasteful spenders and tax hikers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barney, you&#8217;re not dangerous to America because you&#8217;re Gay. Who the hell cares. You&#8217;re dangerous to America because you are morally corrupt. The two aren&#8217;t mutually inclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barney Frank has been the recent target of conservative attacks and of course the McCain campaign of late because he represents the absolute worst in congress today. Unapologetic liberalism: tax and spend; weaken our military by cutting funding. Thing is, Barney is trying to turn the tables, and appear the victim; play the minority card; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}