{"id":189522,"date":"2010-03-16T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/16\/ok-i-understand-you-have-to-hire-a-right-winger\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:05:00","slug":"ok-i-understand-you-have-to-hire-a-right-winger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/16\/ok-i-understand-you-have-to-hire-a-right-winger\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, I Understand You Have to Hire a Right Winger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But do you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/cnn\/index.html?story=\/politics\/war_room\/2010\/03\/16\/cnn_erickson\">have to hire a <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">really stupid<\/span> right winger<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Forget Erickson&#8217;s politics and whether you agree with them. It&#8217;s not whether he&#8217;s on the left or the right that matters &#8212; it&#8217;s the way he expresses his beliefs that&#8217;s the problem. Among other things, he&#8217;s had readers send fake dog poop to Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., because of the congressman&#8217;s support for his party&#8217;s healthcare reform proposals, he&#8217;s celebrated  Chicago&#8217;s losing the 2016 Summer Olympics by writing, &#8220;Obama&#8217;s pimped us to every two bit thug and dictator in the world,&#8221; he&#8217;s said that &#8220;leftists celebrate each and every death of each and every American solider because they view the loss of life as a vindication of their belief that they are right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not asking that they find a smart wingnut, but at the very least, they should find someone who does not need help to cut his own meat, you know, someone who can at least <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">pretend<\/span> to have two brain cells on the teevee, see Will, George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But do you have to hire a really stupid right winger? Forget Erickson&#8217;s politics and whether you agree with them. It&#8217;s not whether he&#8217;s on the left or the right that matters &#8212; it&#8217;s the way he expresses his beliefs that&#8217;s the problem. Among other things, he&#8217;s had readers send fake dog poop to Rep. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1064,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189522"}],"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=189522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}