{"id":737,"date":"2007-08-15T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T21:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:56:12","slug":"conservative-scourage-max-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Scourge Max Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Treiman writes for the Forward<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Armed with a cameraman and a dry wit, Blumenthal has become an Internet favorite, offering up red meat to those looking to have their stereotypes of conservatives confirmed with video evidence.<\/p>\n

Deadpanning his way through this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, Blumenthal cornered pundit Michelle Malkin, author of a recent book defending the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans, and asked her to autograph a photo of Manzanar, the famed internment camp. (She declined.) Later, before a packed auditorium, he asked right-wing fire-breather Ann Coulter: “As a proponent of the sanctity of marriage, can you explain why you’ve had three broken engagements and never been married?” The seven-minute video<\/a> has been viewed more than 160,000 times on YouTube alone.<\/p>\n

For his follow-up, “Generation Chickenhawk,”<\/a> Blumenthal attended a conference for College Republicans. There, he surveyed the enthusiastic young supporters of the Iraq War, searching in vain for attendees who were eager to enlist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Daniel Treiman writes for the Forward: Armed with a cameraman and a dry wit, Blumenthal has become an Internet favorite, offering up red meat to those looking to have their stereotypes of conservatives confirmed with video evidence. Deadpanning his way … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-forward"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t