{"id":194081,"date":"2008-10-25T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/25\/why-i-didnt-comment-on-the-race-baiting-fraud\/"},"modified":"2008-10-25T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T23:58:00","slug":"why-i-didnt-comment-on-the-race-baiting-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/25\/why-i-didnt-comment-on-the-race-baiting-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Didn&#8217;t Comment on the Race Baiting Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I make no claim to wisdom or prescience, but I had reasons not to discuss this story.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>I had nothing meaningful to add<\/b>.  I haven&#8217;t been talking about the assaults and death threats at McCain-Palin rallies either.  I put this stuff down to C=MI,<sup>*<\/sup> and figure that is just the way things are.<\/li>\n<li>To the degree that I have political teeth, I cut them in the UMass SGA Senate, where I served with future actors in the Abramoff and Sciavo matters<sup>&#8224;<\/sup> who were in the College Republicans, which gave me a nose for College Republican bullsh&#038;#, and this <b>reeked<\/b> of College Republican bullsh&#038;#.\n<p>Thus. when I heard that this was a College Republican, I figured that it was a stunt which did not deserve comment.<\/li>\n<li>By the time I heard about it, the note that the &#8220;B&#8221; was backwards, and likely applied in front of a mirror.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t one of those typewriter font types who need to get a life.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><b>C<\/b>onservatism equals <b>M<\/b>ental <b>I<\/b>llness.<\/span><br \/><sup>&#8224;<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">Interestingly enough, more often than not, we were on the same side in SGA Senate,a Mondale Democrat and College Republicans,against the &#8220;US Out of North America&#8221; crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make no claim to wisdom or prescience, but I had reasons not to discuss this story. I had nothing meaningful to add. I haven&#8217;t been talking about the assaults and death threats at McCain-Palin rallies either. I put this stuff down to C=MI,* and figure that is just the way things are. To 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":[967,977,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-presidential-campaign","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194081"}],"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=194081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}