{"id":2234,"date":"2010-01-26T23:35:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-01-26T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:46:35","slug":"2010_wtf_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"2010 WTF #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/\" target=\"browser\">Big Government<\/a> contributor and ACORN-stinger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2010\/01\/acorn_gotcha_man_arrested_for.html\" target=\"browser\">James O&#8217;Keefe has been arrested<\/a> for &#8211; allegedly &#8211; conspiring to do something to the phone likes at Democratic LA Sen Landreau&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Young, suicidally aggressive, and incarcerated is no way to go through life, James.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no excuse, bummer for him, and if true it may well be that he&#8217;ll enjoy penal food for a bit (start eating bologna sandwiches now, acquire the taste for them).<\/p>\n<p>The usual progressive subjects are leaping in the air and waving flags, claiming that this &#8211; somehow &#8211; devalues the videos he took at ACORN. <\/p>\n<p>Hint: no it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite line was from ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;ACORN&#8217;s leadership and grassroots leaders have taken a whole series of steps, including commissioning an independent report that shows actually there wasn&#8217;t illegal conduct by any of the ACORN employees involved, although we fired people involved for improper conduct,&#8221; Whelan said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it was improper, but not illegal, and therefore OK&#8230;right, then, move along.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, that&#8217;s just dumb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}