{"id":2719,"date":"2009-01-06T19:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T02:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/this-weeks-wtf-11\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T19:09:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T02:09:03","slug":"this-weeks-wtf-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/this-weeks-wtf-11\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&rsquo;s WTF!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m amazed at the gall of the right-wing lecturers who dare to offer any advice without prefacing it with, \u201cWe were wrong\u2026\u201d You *were* wrong &#8212; horribly, royally, monstrously wrong. Your repeated mistakes &#8212; coupled with an amazing swagger &#8212; have brought this nation to a new low. So, admit that first or shut the fuck up for a few years. peace, mjh<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our democracy is based on the principle of consent through <strong>compromise<\/strong>. When the pendulum swings too far left or right many unfavorable circumstances come to be. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>In our state most of the tax paying producers are on the right while most of our government social programs favor the left. \u2026 <em>[mjh: I pay taxes, as do all my leftist friends. None of us receives corporate welfare.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In past years we could count on an unbiased, balanced news media to step in and energize the public to force fairness in government! Now the media cannot be trusted to exercise their constitutional mandates because a majority of their members have chosen partisanship over honesty. <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don Spiers<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Los Lunas<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/biz\/05953131170biz01-05-09.htm\">ABQJOURNAL BIZ: Letters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, the media was trustworthy when it was bullied liked the rest of the nation by the Texas Tyrant? You\u2019ve still got FOX, Donny, and Lush Limbaugh, ad nauseum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m amazed at the gall of the right-wing lecturers who dare to offer any advice without prefacing it with, \u201cWe were wrong\u2026\u201d You *were* wrong &#8212; horribly, royally, monstrously wrong. Your repeated mistakes &#8212; coupled with an amazing swagger &#8212; have brought this nation to a new low. So, admit that first or shut the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/this-weeks-wtf-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Week&rsquo;s WTF!?<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","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=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}