{"id":180788,"date":"2017-01-03T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/03\/dont-let-the-door-hit-your-butt-on-the-way-out-shyster\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:47:00","slug":"dont-let-the-door-hit-your-butt-on-the-way-out-shyster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/03\/dont-let-the-door-hit-your-butt-on-the-way-out-shyster\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let the Door Hit Your Butt on the Way out, Shyster\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Dershowitz has drawn a red line, and said that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/2016\/12\/30\/alan-dershowitz-if-keith-ellison-is-appointed-dnc-chair-will-resign-my-membership.html\">If Keith Ellison is appointed DNC chair, I will resign my membership<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A couple of things here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keith Ellison can&#8217;t be <b>appointed<\/b> DNC chair, he can only be <b>elected<\/b> DNC chair.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot resign your membership, you have none.&nbsp; You can only change your party registration, and I for one would welcome your not voting in the primaries.<\/li>\n<li>You <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Dershowitz#Torture\">advocated for judicially authorized torture<\/a>.&nbsp; You have forever ceded anything resembling the moral high ground on any matter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please, just leave.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Apologies for the Fox Business News Channel link, but this is where he said it<\/i>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Dershowitz has drawn a red line, and said that, &#8220;If Keith Ellison is appointed DNC chair, I will resign my membership.&#8221; A couple of things here: Keith Ellison can&#8217;t be appointed DNC chair, he can only be elected DNC chair. You cannot resign your membership, you have none.&nbsp; You can only change your party &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,816,824],"class_list":["post-180788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}