{"id":2867,"date":"2009-09-30T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-just-in-bonus-wtf\/"},"modified":"2009-09-30T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T16:05:13","slug":"this-just-in-bonus-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-just-in-bonus-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In: Bonus WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Think Progress \u00bb Newsmax removes column that called for military coup to resolve the \u2018Obama problem.\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/30\/miltary-coup-newsmax\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Newsmax removes column that called for military coup to resolve the \u2018Obama problem.\u2019<\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/john_perry\/obama_military_coup\/2009\/09\/29\/266012.html\">column<\/a> published on the right-wing site Newsmax yesterday, John L. Perry writes that <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909290042\">a military coup<\/a> against President Obama is possible. Newsmax appears to have taken down the column from its website this morning. Media Matters has <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909290042\">archived it<\/a>, however: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" title=\"obamamilitary\" alt=\"obamamilitary\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/mine\/2009\/09\/obamamilitary.gif\" width=\"170\" height=\"114\" \/><strong>There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America\u2019s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the \u201cObama problem.\u201d Don\u2019t dismiss it as unrealistic.<\/strong> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Military intervention is what Obama\u2019s exponentially accelerating agenda for \u201cfundamental change\u201d toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama\u2019s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.<\/p>\n<p>Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don\u2019t shrug and say, \u201cWe can always worry about that later.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In his Washington Post column, former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson acknowledges that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/29\/AR2009092902932.html\">military leaders seem impressed<\/a>\u201d with President Obama\u2019s decision-making process.<strong> \u201cObama\u2019s engaged, deliberate style has fans in the military,\u201d he writes.<\/strong> <em>[mjh: In case we need reassurances there won\u2019t be a coup.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Update Media Matters notes that Perry\u2019s rhetoric is simply a continuation of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909300003\">a trend of increasingly violent and revolutionary rhetoric<\/a> advanced by conservative media figures.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/30\/miltary-coup-newsmax\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Newsmax removes column that called for military coup to resolve the \u2018Obama problem.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress \u00bb Newsmax removes column that called for military coup to resolve the \u2018Obama problem.\u2019&#160; In a column published on the right-wing site Newsmax yesterday, John L. Perry writes that a military coup against President Obama is possible. Newsmax appears to have taken down the column from its website this morning. Media Matters has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-just-in-bonus-wtf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Just In: Bonus 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":[10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","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=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}