{"id":54,"date":"2008-04-13T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=54"},"modified":"2008-04-13T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T09:45:10","slug":"lashing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/54\/lashing-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Lashing Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, yea, we now know Obama thinks people in small towns in Pennsylvania are a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/53\/obama-on-pennsylvania-gun-owners\">racist, gun-nuts and religious zealots<\/a>, but what do his cult members think?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4G8dRMofHNs\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4G8dRMofHNs\" \/><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jeffery Toobin says Obama&#8217;s statement is &#8220;factually accurate&#8221; and that small town America is &#8220;lashing out&#8221; because the government won&#8217;t take care of them or something. So not only does he apparently agree that flyover country is filled with crazy hicks, he thinks of them like a bunch of petulant children having a temper tantrum as well.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Cafferty follows him up by comparing small town America to &#8220;al Qaeda training camps.&#8221; So on top of being bitter, racist, Bible-thumping, gun-nuts throwing a childish hissy fit; small town people are also a bunch of terrorists? WTF?!<\/p>\n<p>On second thought, that last bit isn&#8217;t really surprising given CNN&#8217;s institutionalized bias against gun owners..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yea, we now know Obama thinks people in small towns in Pennsylvania are a bunch of racist, gun-nuts and religious zealots, but what do his cult members think? Jeffery Toobin says Obama&#8217;s statement is &#8220;factually accurate&#8221; and that small town America is &#8220;lashing out&#8221; because the government won&#8217;t take care of them or something. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}