{"id":182693,"date":"2015-06-30T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/30\/dumbass\/"},"modified":"2015-06-30T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T00:34:00","slug":"dumbass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/30\/dumbass\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"330\" \/><\/a>Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/06\/30\/who_thought_that_an_askbobby_jindal_twitter_dialogue_would_be_a_good_idea\/\">thought that an open forum on Twitter would be a good thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This has been done before, and has failed before, but Jindal did not get the memo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Someone on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal\u2019s campaign staff had the  brilliant idea of opening up a discussion between the Republican hopeful  and Twitter. The result was a terrible idea, poorly executed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">The first, and possibly most important, set of questions for the candidate:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">If you know so little about the Internet that you think <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AskBobby?src=hash\">#AskBobby<\/a> is wise, how can you consider yourself a competent 21st Century President?<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014 Michael O&#8217;Neill (@hkeller812) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hkeller812\/status\/615969684274442240\">June 30, 2015<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">he wasn\u2019t dumb enough to do <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/askbobby?src=hash\">#askbobby<\/a>. he couldn\u2019t have been.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014 Bomani Jones (@bomani_jones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bomani_jones\/status\/615968197053800448\">June 30, 2015<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Yes \u2014 he most certainly was. \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>It goes on from there, and the questions become less &#8220;meta&#8221; and far more aggressively hostile. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans have been trolling politics since the 1960s, and somehow, they do not understand that there are trolls on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is Bobby Jindal too stupid to be President, he is too stupid to be allowed around sharp object.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder who is employed by him to cut his meat for him, and I wonder what the f^%$# this benighted soul is going to put on his resume.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is &#8220;Nutrition Consultant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal thought that an open forum on Twitter would be a good thing. This has been done before, and has failed before, but Jindal did not get the memo: Someone on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal\u2019s campaign staff had the brilliant idea of opening up a discussion between the Republican hopeful and Twitter. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[987,997,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-internet","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182693"}],"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=182693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}