{"id":3690,"date":"2008-11-25T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2008-11-25T06:02:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T11:02:20","slug":"q-how-many-lefty-ideologues-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3690","title":{"rendered":"Q: How Many Lefty Ideologues Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A:\u00a0 “Only one, and that’s not funny”<\/p>\n

Joe Lieberman appears in an ad for a phone company.<\/p>\n

It’s kinda funny.\u00a0 Not “wet your pants” funny…\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0…but, y’know, droll.<\/p>\n

Look for the Obama Administration to get calls for a central humor vetting office from this guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…this is a horrible ad, because speaking as a progressive, the last person I want to see on an ad for things that matter to me is Joe Effing Lieberman. And I really don’t want to see it with the tagline “switching is easy,” because I interpret that as an insult. See, I didn’t take Lieberman’s words on the campaign trail lightly. When he blithely suggested that a question about whether President-elect Obama was a socialist was “interesting,” I took offense to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Er…yeah.\u00a0 I’ll bet he did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

…And when, after the election, the Democratic caucus voted to retain Joe Lieberman as Chair of the Homeland Security committee when he didn’t offer so much as a public apology for his statements, when he so easily switched his allegiance back to the group that he had so vilified repeatedly on the campaign trail, I took offense, not only at the Democratic caucus who let him off the hook, but at him, for making it clear that his personal honor is a joke, that he never gives more than lip service to anything he claims to care about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Which is a bad thing with Democrats, but a <\/em>good one for Republicans<\/em><\/a>, apparently\u00a0– Ed.]<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m guessing that Working Assets means this as a tongue-in-cheek joke, but it’s falling flat on me right now. It’s a little too soon for that kind of humor, especially since Lieberman is in a position where he can do great damage to progressive causes if he desires…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AIRMAN CRONAUER:\u00a0 “You in more dire need of a &*(#(#$*#()^^^^^^CARRIER INTERRUPTED #*$#*(#))))))++++++++\u00a0 than any human ever born”.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A:\u00a0 “Only one, and that’s not funny” Joe Lieberman appears in an ad for a phone company. It’s kinda funny.\u00a0 Not “wet your pants” funny…\u00a0 \u00a0…but, y’know, droll. Look for the Obama Administration to get calls for a central humor vetting office from this guy: …this is a horrible ad, because speaking as a progressive, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-language","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","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=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}