{"id":190871,"date":"2009-10-18T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/18\/quote-of-the-day-republican-values-edition\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T23:55:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-republican-values-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/18\/quote-of-the-day-republican-values-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day, Republican Values Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/a_first_time_for_everything.php\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I&#8217;m going to go way out on a limb here: Professional wrestling and necrophilia have never come up together in a political campaign before <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">today<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Josh Marshall discussing the storied past of current Republican Senatorial candidate, and former WWE CEO Linda McMahon.<\/p>\n<p>During her tenure as head of WWE, there were sketches featuring, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/10\/ct-dems-find-racy-wwe-clips-they-say-suggest-mcmahon-condones-necrophilia-sex-in-public.php\">wrestlers engaged in a simulated rape, a public sex scene, and one depicting a wrestler having sex with a corpse<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only possible defense to the accusation that Ms. McMahon is a purveyor of smut and perversion would be that she has no control over the content because pro wrestling is real.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck selling that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Talking Points Memo: I&#8217;m going to go way out on a limb here: Professional wrestling and necrophilia have never come up together in a political campaign before today. Josh Marshall discussing the storied past of current Republican Senatorial candidate, and former WWE CEO Linda McMahon. During her tenure as head of WWE, there &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,978,1057,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-sports","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190871"}],"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=190871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}