{"id":194589,"date":"2008-09-11T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/11\/talk-about-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T22:21:00","slug":"talk-about-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/11\/talk-about-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because, seriously for Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2008\/09\/20080910-1.html\">try to spin the continued breathing of Osama bin Laden with this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q<\/span>: But Osama bin Laden is the one that &#8212; you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9\/11 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MS. PERINO<\/span>: No, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9\/11, and he&#8217;s sitting in jail right now<\/span>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that bin Laden was some 6 foot 6 inch tall dude suffering from Marfan&#8217;s related kidney failure who occasionally attended meetings of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ladies Sewing Circle &amp; Terrorist Society<\/span>, or some such.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I think that I&#8217;ve grown too cynical to be shocked, they kick it up a notch.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3gwb2EuzGN4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3gwb2EuzGN4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>The mendacity of these folks, even after 7 years, continues to stun me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because, seriously for Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 to try to spin the continued breathing of Osama bin Laden with this: Q: But Osama bin Laden is the one that &#8212; you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9\/11 &#8212; MS. PERINO: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,972,1064,1076,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice","category-media","category-terrorism","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194589"}],"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=194589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}