{"id":642,"date":"2004-01-28T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:23:57","slug":"642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/28\/642\/","title":{"rendered":"I Had To Quell Free Speech In Order To Save It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <i>New York Post<\/i>, Al Franken <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/news\/nationalnews\/16692.htm\" target=\"new\">physically attacked<\/a> a LaRouche supporter who was dissenting from the views of Howard Dean.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;I got down low and took his legs out,&#8221; said Franken afterwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get the joke, Alfrie, but I generally don&#8217;t.  Were you making some point about how you think Republicans show false machismo by picking on small national threats, or something too sublime for me to imagine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Post, Al Franken physically attacked a LaRouche supporter who was dissenting from the views of Howard Dean. &#8220;I got down low and took his legs out,&#8221; said Franken afterwards. I don&#8217;t get the joke, Alfrie, but I generally don&#8217;t. Were you making some point about how you think Republicans show [&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-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22333,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/22333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}