{"id":5506,"date":"2009-10-06T06:12:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:22:17","slug":"open-letter-to-sorosers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5506","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Sorosers"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: Paid “independent” “alternative” water-carriers for George Soros (et. al)<\/p>\n

From: Mitch Berg, actual independent<\/p>\n

Re:\u00a0 Your Latest Meme<\/p>\n

So first, we had “truther” – people, usually Democrats (including, during the 2004 election, as many as a third of Democrats, according to one survey which, to be fair, didn’t distinguish between respondents with questions and the real true believers), who believe that George W. Bush and the US government were behind 9\/11.<\/p>\n

Then came the “birthers” – people, usually Republicans (including, during the past election, as many as a quarter of Republicans, according to one survey which, to be fair once again, didn’t distinguish between true believers and those who are merely curious about the flap about Obama’s birth certificate), who question\u00a0President Obama’s constitutional qualification to be President.<\/p>\n

The meme is thus set; taking an oddball conspiracy, tacking “-er” onto the end to connote a sense of unthinking, unreasoning\u00a0credulity, even insanity.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the latest manifestation of this meme – the “Tenther<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Of course, while 9\/11 and Birth Certificate conspiracies are easily and often hilariously debunked, the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution has the inconvenient properties of being both part of the United States Constitution<\/em> and, as it happens, an inconvenient hurdle (for those who see the Constitution as “hurdles” to big government) to the current Administration’s more gigantistic plans (i.e., most of them).
\nWhich explains, I suspect, the Alinskier and Soroser fingerprints on the whole meme.\u00a0 Otherwise, the left’s most-considered response is “States Rights?\u00a0 Why, that means you favor slavery<\/em>!”<\/p>\n

That is all-er.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: Paid “independent” “alternative” water-carriers for George Soros (et. al) From: Mitch Berg, actual independent Re:\u00a0 Your Latest Meme So first, we had “truther” – people, usually Democrats (including, during the 2004 election, as many as a third of Democrats, according to one survey which, to be fair, didn’t distinguish between respondents with questions and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,63,79],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-lefty-alt-media","category-slander-files","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","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=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33721,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/33721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}