{"id":25355,"date":"2010-11-03T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25355"},"modified":"2010-12-05T09:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T17:58:56","slug":"i-wonder-how-the-jewish-journal-feels-about-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25355","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder How The Jewish Journal Feels About The Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the headline on JewishJournal.com right now: &#8220;GOP sweep makes one Jew a star, unseats and disempowers many others&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t make this up. They want to portray the Republican victories as disempowering Jews. Yeah, we&#8217;re all walking around America today fearing a pogrom.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of wanker uses the word &#8216;disempower&#8217;? Only a real tool. No manly man would use that kind of language.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but where I come from, when we meet people who use the word &#8220;disempower&#8221; or who describe themselves politically as &#8220;progressive&#8221;, we drag them behind trucks until they stop. Usually sorts them right out after a mile or two. Then we leave them for the bloody dingos.<\/p>\n<p>Only a wanker would call himself a &#8220;progressive.&#8221; A manly man on the left would say he&#8217;s a leftist just like a manly man homo calls himself a homo or a poof or a fagella or a twink or light in his loafers or a sodomite or a Reconstructionist rabbi but he ain&#8217;t ever &#8220;gay&#8221; unless he&#8217;s particularly happy.<\/p>\n<p>How long until the New York Times gives me William Safire&#8217;s old column &#8220;On Language&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Only wankers like our president start using Latino accents for Latino words when otherwise speaking English sentences. <\/p>\n<p>Did you hear the audio when the president said last week, &#8220;If Latinos sit out the election instead of, &#8216;we&#8217;re going to punish our enemies and we&#8217;re going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us&#8217; &#8212; if they don&#8217;t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it&#8217;s going to be harder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8220;Latino&#8221; with a Latino accent but every other word, he spoke as a white guy, but when he speaks to black audiences, he&#8217;ll slip into the negro dialect. What a clown.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Jon Stewart called him &#8220;dude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/obama-to-ryan-seacrest-im-okay-with-jon-stewart-calling-me-dude\/\">Yesterday Barack Obama told Ryan Seacrest he doesn&#8217;t mind being called dude<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Always elevating the presidency!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the headline on JewishJournal.com right now: &#8220;GOP sweep makes one Jew a star, unseats and disempowers many others&#8221; You can&#8217;t make this up. They want to portray the Republican victories as disempowering Jews. Yeah, we&#8217;re all walking around America &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,51],"tags":[24252,24250,29787,5962,24251,24249],"class_list":["post-25355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-jewish-journal","tag-dingos","tag-english-sentences","tag-jewish-journal","tag-manly-man","tag-republican-victories","tag-william-safire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26135,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25355\/revisions\/26135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}