{"id":190811,"date":"2009-10-23T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/23\/i-love-alan-grayson\/"},"modified":"2009-10-23T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T18:46:00","slug":"i-love-alan-grayson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/23\/i-love-alan-grayson\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Alan Grayson*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/10\/grayson-cheney-has-blood-that-drips-from-his-teeth.php?ref=mp\">discussing Cheney&#8217;s comments on Afghanistan<\/a>, Grayson says, &#8220;Well, my response is &#8212; and by the way, I have trouble listening to what he says sometimes, because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he&#8217;s talking, but my response is this: He&#8217;s just angry because the president doesn&#8217;t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love this for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s wicked funny.<\/li>\n<li>This, like his &#8220;Republicans want you to die&#8221;, comment, completely marginalizes his opponents by showing who they truly are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tQh_kmhbPL4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tQh_kmhbPL4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tQh_kmhbPL4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tQh_kmhbPL4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/\">the General would say<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing Cheney&#8217;s comments on Afghanistan, Grayson says, &#8220;Well, my response is &#8212; and by the way, I have trouble listening to what he says sometimes, because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he&#8217;s talking, but my response is this: He&#8217;s just angry because the president doesn&#8217;t shoot old men in 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":[1153,1203,969,1100,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-dick-cheney","category-evil","category-funny","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190811"}],"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=190811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}