{"id":4773,"date":"2009-03-17T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2017-11-02T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T19:04:30","slug":"hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Rush Limbaugh distances himself from <a href=\"http:\/\/primebuzz.kcstar.com\/?q=node\/17659\" target=\"_blank\">this knucklehead<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a comment aired this afternoon on WMT, an Iowa radio station, Grassley (R-Iowa) said: &#8220;The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards them if they&#8217;d follow the Japanese model and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I&#8217;m sorry, and then either do one of two things \u2014 resign, or go commit suicide.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sort of comment from an elected official is reprehensible, and from a Republican who theoretically values life and opposes euthanasia, is beyond the pale.  This <strike>man<\/strike> Senator deserves ostracization (note to that ignorant Senator from Iowa: that is not a medical procedure).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Rush Limbaugh distances himself from this knucklehead: In a comment aired this afternoon on WMT, an Iowa radio station, Grassley (R-Iowa) said: &#8220;The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards them if they&#8217;d follow the Japanese model and come before the American people and take that deep bow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","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=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17169,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions\/17169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}