{"id":3294,"date":"2010-07-13T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T22:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/oh-puhlease-this-weeks-wtf\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T22:54:58","slug":"oh-puhlease-this-weeks-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/oh-puhlease-this-weeks-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Puhlease: This Week&rsquo;s WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anyone more fearful or na\u00efve than the Madhatters? Hasn\u2019t the Republican Party used fear forever? Gotta go puke now.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/billboard1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new billboard in downtown Mason City features a photo of President Obama, flanked by pictures of German dictator Adolph Hitler and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.<\/p>\n<p>The billboard features <strong>phrases like \u201cLive Free or Die\u201d and <font style=\"background-color: #ffff00\">\u201cRadical leaders prey on the fearful and naive.\u201d<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same spot where a billboard last fall featured the phrase \u201cObama-Nation, Live Free or Die\u201d with the Communist symbol of a hammer and sickle. <strong>The billboards were paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/07\/13\/north-iowa-tea-party-displays-billboard-comparing-obama-to-hitler\/\">Think Progress \u00bb North Iowa Tea Party displays billboard comparing Obama to Hitler.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anyone more fearful or na\u00efve than the Madhatters? Hasn\u2019t the Republican Party used fear forever? Gotta go puke now. A new billboard in downtown Mason City features a photo of President Obama, flanked by pictures of German dictator Adolph Hitler and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. The billboard features phrases like \u201cLive Free or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/oh-puhlease-this-weeks-wtf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, Puhlease: 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":[10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","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\/3294","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=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}