{"id":5229,"date":"2009-08-10T06:09:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T11:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2009-08-10T06:20:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T11:20:24","slug":"un-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5229","title":{"rendered":"“Un-American”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s establish this in advance:\u00a0 Congresspeople get unlimited franking, immediate and usually slavering access to the mainstream media, and usually a fan-club of alt-media types – bloggers and talk radio, whether left or right – to help them get their views out.<\/p>\n

It’s practically impossible to “silence” a United States congressperson.<\/p>\n

Now – I keep asking this, but every time I think “this can’t possibly get any worse”, I’m always unpleasantly surprised.\u00a0 I ask the question “do you remember three years ago, when “dissent was the supreme form of patriotism””?<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, writing in USA Today<\/em>, doesn’t want you to think they do<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views \u2014 but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American<\/strong>. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are you people embarassed yet?
\nNancy Pelosi – you live by Alinsky, you die (rhetorically) by Alinsky.\u00a0 Didn’t he revolutionize civil dialog?<\/p>\n

At any rate – it’s the facts that get us to <\/em>these meetings.\u00a0 The nation will be bankrupted.\u00a0 The healthcare system – the best in the world – will be destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s establish this in advance:\u00a0 Congresspeople get unlimited franking, immediate and usually slavering access to the mainstream media, and usually a fan-club of alt-media types – bloggers and talk radio, whether left or right – to help them get their views out. It’s practically impossible to “silence” a United States congressperson. Now – I keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","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=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}