{"id":1979,"date":"2006-09-10T12:16:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T18:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/hells-angel-ayatollah-limbaugh\/"},"modified":"2006-09-10T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T18:16:23","slug":"hells-angel-ayatollah-limbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/hells-angel-ayatollah-limbaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell&#8217;s Angel: Ayatollah Limbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>I watched Lush Limbaugh on CBS News the other night in a segment called freeSpeech (notice the nerd influence). Limbaugh calmly yet forcefully insisted that to disagree with the entire package of The Endless War on Terror is to be unAmerican and unpatriotic. That&#8217;s right &#8212; if you have questions or doubts or oppose anything our clearly adled leaders insist on, you are unAmerican.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I can think of nothing more unAmerican than stiffling dissent and demanding fealty to the government.<\/p>\n<p>It was some days later that these word from American Pie (the song, not the movie) percolated up to consciousness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And as I watched you on the stage<br \/>\nmy hands were clenched in fists of rage<br \/>\nno angel born in Hell<br \/>\ncould break that Satan&#8217;s spell<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>That people hang on Limbaugh&#8217;s every word and worship him is all the proof one needs there is no god and public education is a failure. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/index.php?s=ayatollah\">mjh\u2019s blog Search Results for ayatollah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Lush Limbaugh on CBS News the other night in a segment called freeSpeech (notice the nerd influence). Limbaugh calmly yet forcefully insisted that to disagree with the entire package of The Endless War on Terror is to be unAmerican and unpatriotic. That&#8217;s right &#8212; if you have questions or doubts or oppose anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/hells-angel-ayatollah-limbaugh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hell&#8217;s Angel: Ayatollah Limbaugh<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}