{"id":189164,"date":"2010-05-13T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/13\/idiocracy-was-a-documentary\/"},"modified":"2010-05-13T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T16:13:00","slug":"idiocracy-was-a-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/13\/idiocracy-was-a-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiocracy Was a Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 384px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"384\" height=\"231\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iJG-7s1e5eM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iJG-7s1e5eM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"384\" height=\"231\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0387808\/\">Idiocracy<\/a> writ small<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Yes, this an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">actual<\/span> campaign ad in which a candidate is lambasted for believing in the independently observed fact that is evolution.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a little more complex, because it&#8217;s an ad for a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Republican<\/span> primary, and intelligence and fact count for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> little in that world.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it may be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/article\/20100420\/NEWS02\/4200327\/AEA-may-be-helping-PAC-fund-ads-attacking-Byrne\">Alabama Education Association, the state branch of the NEA union, that is running the ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The AEA has had a number of long running battles with the candidate, <span>Bradley Byrne, most prominently over his attempts to ban community college employees from holding public office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whether or not it&#8217;s the AEA funding this, the point is that they (probably correctly) see a person who understands the scientific method and proof as being vulnerable if this is exposed to the Republican party base.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably true, and it&#8217;s very sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idiocracy writ small Yes, this an actual campaign ad in which a candidate is lambasted for believing in the independently observed fact that is evolution. It&#8217;s actually a little more complex, because it&#8217;s an ad for a Republican primary, and intelligence and fact count for very little in that world. Additionally, it may be the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1204,978,1069,982,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-junk-science","category-politics","category-science","category-stupid","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189164"}],"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=189164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}