{"id":28068,"date":"2021-04-20T13:18:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28068"},"modified":"2021-04-20T13:25:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:25:57","slug":"i-thought-we-were-passed-the-haw-haw-stage-but-probably-never-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/20\/i-thought-we-were-passed-the-haw-haw-stage-but-probably-never-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":"I Thought We Were Passed The &#8220;Haw, Haw!&#8221; Stage, But Probably Never Will Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2021\/04\/20\/ted-nugent-who-once-dismissed-covid-19-gets-virus\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Nugent, who once dismissed COVID-19, gets virus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the video shot at his Michigan ranch, the \u201cCat Scratch Fever\u201d singer repeatedly uses racist slurs to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his previous stance that he wouldn\u2019t be getting the vaccine because he claims wrongly that \u201cnobody knows what\u2019s in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nugent, a supporter of ex-President Donald Trump, previously called the pandemic a scam and has railed against public health restrictions. He has repeated a narrative pushed by conservative media and disputed by health experts that suggests the official death count from the coronavirus is inflated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much rightthinking in that &#8220;news,&#8221; I feel mindcleaner for having read it.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font> Immediately after posting this, I happened over to Facebook and saw one of my now-Internet acquaintances commenting on another medium&#8217;s covering of the story with his own, &#8220;Haw, haw!&#8221;  I used to think so much better of people.  On the other hand, I vote for Trump twice, so he would think me irredeemable were he to think of me at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Nugent, who once dismissed COVID-19, gets virus: In the video shot at his Michigan ranch, the \u201cCat Scratch Fever\u201d singer repeatedly uses racist slurs to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his previous stance that he wouldn\u2019t be getting the vaccine because he claims wrongly that \u201cnobody knows what\u2019s in it.\u201d Nugent, a supporter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28072,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28068\/revisions\/28072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}