{"id":3326,"date":"2010-08-17T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/omg-this-weeks-lolwtf\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:17:00","slug":"omg-this-weeks-lolwtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/omg-this-weeks-lolwtf\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG, This Week&rsquo;s LOL+WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is priceless. The guy looks like a member of Draco\u2019s clan \u2013 the one who embarrasses them all. Geert must have been made up by a Hollywood hack with the intent of making fascists look bad. What a jackass. A \u2018political tool,\u2019 indeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/08\/15\/911-islamophobia-rally\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Gingrich, Bolton, Breitbart Team Up With Far-Right Muslim-Basher Geert Wilders For 9\/11 Rally<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/geert-wilders1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Photo of] the far-right Dutch Parliamentarian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geert_Wilders\">Geert Wilders<\/a>. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/feb\/17\/netherlands.islam\">Islam is not a religion, it\u2019s an ideology<\/a>,\u201d Wilders told the Guardian in 2009, \u201cthe ideology of a retarded culture.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In the past, Wilders\u2019 extremism has been condemned by conservatives such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therightscoop.com\/glenn-beck-foolishly-calls-geert-wilders-a-fascist\">Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer<\/a>, and even Glenn Beck, who called Wilders \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2010\/03\/glenn-beck-calls-geert-wilders-a-fascist-endorses-ban-on-his-entering-uk.html\">fascist<\/a>.\u201d <font style=\"background-color: #a5b592\">It\u2019s a clear sign of how far the Republicans have shifted to the right and embraced Islamophobia as a political tool<\/font> that movement figures like Gingrich, Bolton, and Breitbart now have no problem sharing a stage with Wilders. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/08\/15\/911-islamophobia-rally\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Gingrich, Bolton, Breitbart Team Up With Far-Right Muslim-Basher Geert Wilders For 9\/11 Rally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is priceless. The guy looks like a member of Draco\u2019s clan \u2013 the one who embarrasses them all. Geert must have been made up by a Hollywood hack with the intent of making fascists look bad. What a jackass. A \u2018political tool,\u2019 indeed. Think Progress \u00bb Gingrich, Bolton, Breitbart Team Up With Far-Right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/omg-this-weeks-lolwtf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OMG, This Week&rsquo;s LOL+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-3326","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\/3326","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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}