{"id":370,"date":"2004-08-14T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/cheap-shots\/"},"modified":"2004-08-14T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2004-08-14T17:42:08","slug":"cheap-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/cheap-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic presidential candidate is probably <\/p>\n<p><i>oblivious<\/i> to the inconvenience and expense visited on hapless citizens. [S]ince the <i>mistake<\/i> was committed on Kerry&#8217;s <\/p>\n<p>behalf [mjh: in an effort to protect his life], his campaign ought to reimburse passengers who were <i>railroaded<\/i> into paying tow <\/p>\n<p>fee. &#8212; The Mighty Albuquerque Journal<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8221;Oblivious&#8221;?<\/i> How do you even spell that without a <b>duhbya<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m puzzled by the Journal&#8217;s outrage on behalf of 6 citizens who were inconvenienced by the Secret Service&#8217;s decision to tow their <\/p>\n<p>vehicles. I&#8217;m more puzzled still how the Journal hangs this on John Kerry (on the front page, no less, and, days later, the editorial <\/p>\n<p>page). Is it possible that more than 6 people have been inconvenienced by the frequent visits of Dick Cheney and George Bush? Is it <\/p>\n<p>possible that more than 6 people have paid a steep price in terms of loss of freedom, especially free speech and free association? We&#8217;ll <\/p>\n<p>never know from the Journal, which isn&#8217;t about to investigate such matters. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[published 8\/24\/04]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic presidential candidate is probably oblivious to the inconvenience and expense visited on hapless citizens. [S]ince the mistake was committed on Kerry&#8217;s behalf [mjh: in an effort to protect his life], his campaign ought to reimburse passengers who were railroaded into paying tow fee. &#8212; The Mighty Albuquerque Journal &#8221;Oblivious&#8221;? How do you even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/cheap-shots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheap Shots<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}