{"id":5713,"date":"2008-09-29T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T22:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2008-09-29T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T22:30:01","slug":"prager-panicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5713","title":{"rendered":"Prager Panicked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pascalfervor.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/disappointing-rhetoric.html\">Pascal writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I just heard Dennis Prager (&quot;I am not among the panicking types as you well  know&quot;) say (10:40 AM PST) that conservatives must allow the bailout because &quot;the  last depression brought us gentlemen named Hitler and Mussolini &#8212; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">remember<\/span>? &#8212; and so would this.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Aside  from the alarming tone making it sound like Mr. Prager is aiming to infect  conservatives with his own fears, he is factually wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Mussolini was in  power long before the crash of 1929 that itself preceded the Great Depression by  a few years. And I am not even gonna bother with his simplistic cause for the  depression (among the causes being governmental intrusions made in a panic).  This is Prager&#8217;s Joe Biden moment, and he hasn&#8217;t a clue how panicked he is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pascal writes: I just heard Dennis Prager (&quot;I am not among the panicking types as you well know&quot;) say (10:40 AM PST) that conservatives must allow the bailout because &quot;the last depression brought us gentlemen named Hitler and Mussolini &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5713\">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":[4],"tags":[13154,29761,13155,4710,5864,10068],"class_list":["post-5713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-crash-of-1929","tag-dennis-prager","tag-great-depression","tag-hitler-and-mussolini","tag-joe-biden","tag-s-joe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713","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=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}