{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/11372\/\">Daniel Treiman writes for the Forward<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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<p>Deadpanning his way through this year&rsquo;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: &ldquo;As a proponent of the sanctity of marriage, can you explain why you&rsquo;ve had three broken engagements and never been married?&rdquo; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ByLqJD36F7E\">seven-minute video<\/a> has been viewed more than 160,000 times on YouTube alone.<\/p>\n<p>For his follow-up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JX5cqG4iJQY\">&ldquo;Generation Chickenhawk,&rdquo;<\/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<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=737\">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":{"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}