{"id":2943,"date":"2009-12-17T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/this-weeks-wtf-the-braying-of-a-lying-jackass\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T14:21:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:21:02","slug":"this-weeks-wtf-the-braying-of-a-lying-jackass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/this-weeks-wtf-the-braying-of-a-lying-jackass\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&rsquo;s WTF?! The Braying of a Lying Jackass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Think Progress \u00bb Steve King: Tea Partiers Are \u2018Working Americans,\u2019 Unlike The \u2018Non-Working Americans\u2019 Who Protested Bush\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/17\/steve-king-non-working\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Steve King: Tea Partiers Are \u2018Working Americans,\u2019 Unlike The \u2018Non-Working Americans\u2019 Who Protested Bush<\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Steve King (R-IA): &#8220;These are the working Americans that are coming out to protest now. <em>That\u2019s a new thing.<\/em> We\u2019ve seen a lot of non-working Americans protest when George Bush was president, but these are people who have to leave their jobs or their businesses or their families and come to their communities or come to Washington, DC.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From denying the influence of astroturf groups to inflating the size of their crowds, conservatives have sought to cast their protests as the true embodiment of \u201creal America.\u201d King\u2019s claim is an arrogant insult aimed at undermining the legitimacy of the hundreds of thousands of Americans, both employed and unemployed, who protested the Bush administration\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/17\/steve-king-non-working\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Steve King: Tea Partiers Are \u2018Working Americans,\u2019 Unlike The \u2018Non-Working Americans\u2019 Who Protested Bush<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress \u00bb Steve King: Tea Partiers Are \u2018Working Americans,\u2019 Unlike The \u2018Non-Working Americans\u2019 Who Protested Bush&#160; Rep. Steve King (R-IA): &#8220;These are the working Americans that are coming out to protest now. That\u2019s a new thing. We\u2019ve seen a lot of non-working Americans protest when George Bush was president, but these are people who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/this-weeks-wtf-the-braying-of-a-lying-jackass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Week&rsquo;s WTF?! The Braying of a Lying Jackass<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","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=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}