{"id":196867,"date":"2008-03-18T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/18\/this-was-in-the-corner\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T23:57:00","slug":"this-was-in-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/18\/this-was-in-the-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS Was in the CORNER??????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about signs of the Apocalypse, when Charles Murray, the bigot who wrote <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Bell Curve<\/span>, posted on the Corner Blog of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the National Review<\/span>, a Magazine that never failed out to speak out in favor of bigotry and racist policies until it was too late to make a difference, <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MjI3MWMyOGFkNmQ2MGFjNzRhYzYwMGVhZWJhMjcyOGM=\">just described Barack Obama&#8217;s speech as, &#8220;just plain flat out brilliant&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You know, if I was hoping for the Rapture, I&#8217;d be looking this as a bigger sign than anything happening in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, the speech is below, and it is remarkable (37:39):<br \/><a style=\"left: 0px ! important; top: 0px ! important;\" title=\"Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pWe7wTVbLUU&amp;hl=en\"><\/a><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pWe7wTVbLUU&amp;hl=en\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pWe7wTVbLUU&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about signs of the Apocalypse, when Charles Murray, the bigot who wrote The Bell Curve, posted on the Corner Blog of the National Review, a Magazine that never failed out to speak out in favor of bigotry and racist policies until it was too late to make a difference, just described Barack Obama&#8217;s speech &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,988,1164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-race","category-teotwawki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196867"}],"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=196867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}