{"id":2890,"date":"2009-10-20T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-weeks-wtf-19\/"},"modified":"2009-10-20T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T01:00:00","slug":"this-weeks-wtf-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-weeks-wtf-19\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably thought the \u201cjoke\u201d about gunning-down liberal democrats<\/a> was this week\u2019s WTF?! But, no, we have a last-minute winner, from the drooling maw of the Big Mouth of the Republican Party (sorry, Lush, take another Oxy), Glenn Blech:<\/p>\n

 Think Progress \u00bb Beck says \u2018progressives\u2019 are descended from \u2018tyrants\u2019 and \u2018slave owners.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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On his Fox News show today, Glenn Beck said that \u201cin the last couple of years\u201d he\u2019s been \u201ctrying to read a different Founding Father all the time,\u201d offering that his latest interest is in Samuel Adams. According to Beck, Samuel Adams would have hated modern day progressives. \u201cWe call them progressives now, but back in Samuel Adams\u2019 day, they used to call them tyrants,\u201d said Beck. \u201cA little later, I think they were also called slave owners.\u201d Watch it:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of odd that Beck deifies the Founding Fathers while attacking progressives as \u201cslave owners,\u201d considering that some of the most famous Founding Fathers owned slaves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Think Progress \u00bb Beck says \u2018progressives\u2019 are descended from \u2018tyrants\u2019 and \u2018slave owners.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Think Progress declines to note that the tattered remnants of Conservatism resemble nothing so much as the end of the Confederacy (slave holders, if you\u2019ve forgotten). I can\u2019t wait until Blech finishes with the Founders and moves on to the Civil War. Was that war about progressive slave holders in the South? Wouldn\u2019t that make the North the good guys? But wasn\u2019t the War of Northern Aggression between an overbearing Federal government (Sam Adams says, \u201cboo, hiss\u201d) versus freedom-loving (for some) States\u2019 Righters (or Tenthers, as they call themselves today)? Of course, as in the Republican party, the Confederacy consisted of rich people rallying poor people to their defense. The people who have everything use people who have nothing to fight people who want something for everyone. Who needs slaves anymore? Turns out, you have to feed slaves, but you don\u2019t have to feed poor people \u2013 let them join the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably thought the \u201cjoke\u201d about gunning-down liberal democrats was this week\u2019s WTF?! But, no, we have a last-minute winner, from the drooling maw of the Big Mouth of the Republican Party (sorry, Lush, take another Oxy), Glenn Blech:  Think Progress \u00bb Beck says \u2018progressives\u2019 are descended from \u2018tyrants\u2019 and \u2018slave owners.\u2019 On his Fox … Continue reading This Week’s WTF?!<\/span> →<\/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-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","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=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}