{"id":188339,"date":"2010-10-18T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/18\/this-election-is-getting-weird\/"},"modified":"2010-10-18T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T00:25:00","slug":"this-election-is-getting-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/18\/this-election-is-getting-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"This Election is Getting Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 370px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.vmixcore.com\/core-flash\/UnifiedVideoPlayer\/UnifiedVideoPlayer.swf?player_id=1b46d84972003656d7ea292fc5d80122&amp;\" name=\"UnifiedVideoPlayer\" play=\"true\" loop=\"false\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"player_id=1b46d84972003656d7ea292fc5d80122&amp;token=35d783d6f4fde958cfb962042c2b2926\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" align=\"middle\" height=\"283.32\" width=\"360\"><\/embed><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">First, Joe Miller says that the <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/10\/joe-miller-on-securing-the-border-if-east-germany-could-we-could-video.php\">Berlin Wall is a good thing<\/a>, and now he has his own merry band of Brownshirts<\/span><\/div>\n<p>So, it appears that Alaska Republican Senate nominee has hired hired goons to harass the press in order to prevent them from asking him questions, and they just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/2010\/10\/17\/1506223\/miller-security-guards-handcuff.html\">assaulted and handcuffed a journalist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller&#8217;s private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to release Hopfinger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I keep expecting this crowd to burst into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bs5bnVoZK4Q&amp;feature=related\">Tomorrow Belongs to Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Christine O&#8217;Donnell may be the sane one of this lot.<\/p>\n<p>Our political culture is broken in some very profound ways, and I have no clue as to how to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Joe Miller says that the Berlin Wall is a good thing, and now he has his own merry band of Brownshirts So, it appears that Alaska Republican Senate nominee has hired hired goons to harass the press in order to prevent them from asking him questions, and they just assaulted and handcuffed a journalist: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,978,1027,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-politics","category-video","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188339"}],"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=188339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}