{"id":4793,"date":"2009-04-10T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:19:59","slug":"joe-williams-catches-the-essence-of-a-republican-party-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/10\/joe-williams-catches-the-essence-of-a-republican-party-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Williams Catches The Essence Of A Republican Party Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his review for the film <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/entertainment\/reviews.nsf\/movie\/story\/38EE7247694F195086257592006F509B?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Observe and Report<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>History will attest that the most frequently occurring character in the comedies of this decade has been the self-inflated blowhard who is actually a pinhead, but in the hands of man-child Rogen, Ronnie is <b>several degrees to the right<\/b> of a blustering Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell.<\/p>\n<p>We watch in shock as this wannabe cop engages in date rape, hard-drug abuse and vigilante mayhem that seems derived from repeated viewings of &#8220;Taxi Driver.&#8221; Some of the slapstick is brutally funny, but the laughs are like involuntary confessions elicited by a taser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Date rape, hard drug abuse, and vigilante mayhem.  That pretty much identifies what conservative thought is.  If you&#8217;re an unthoughtful film critic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his review for the film Observe and Report: History will attest that the most frequently occurring character in the comedies of this decade has been the self-inflated blowhard who is actually a pinhead, but in the hands of man-child Rogen, Ronnie is several degrees to the right of a blustering Ben Stiller or Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","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=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17056,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/17056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}