{"id":29749,"date":"2011-08-05T12:48:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=29749"},"modified":"2012-02-20T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T05:35:07","slug":"john-kerry-requests-that-the-media-quit-giving-fair-and-balanced-coverage-to-idiots-a-k-a-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=29749","title":{"rendered":"&quot;John Kerry Requests That The Media Quit Giving &#039;Fair And Balanced&#039; Coverage To Idiots (A.K.A. The Tea Party)&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/john-kerry-media-tea-party-dow-video-2011-8#ixzz1UBJTOFJQ\">First Amendment is for purists and extremists<\/a>, evidently.  And sensible, sober, realistic political thinkers like John Kerry know when it&#8217;s time to call a Hobbit a Hobbit and boot those hairy-footed, do-gooder midgets back to the idealistic fantasy land that belched them forth, lest people begin taking them too seriously as an alternative to the sensible, sober, realistic political establishment &#8212; one that believes unemployment benefits create jobs, and that cuts in <em>government<\/em> spending mean the destruction of the <em>private<\/em> sector.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the writer covering this, Business<em> Insider&#8217;s <\/em>Glynnis MacNicol, seems to find Kerry&#8217;s reimagining of the First Amendment sensible, sober, and realistic, herself obliquely decrying the rise of talk radio and the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Up is down. Black is white.  Benny is the Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Amendment is for purists and extremists, evidently. And sensible, sober, realistic political thinkers like John Kerry know when it&#8217;s time to call a Hobbit a Hobbit and boot those hairy-footed, do-gooder midgets back to the idealistic fantasy land that belched them forth, lest people begin taking them too seriously as an alternative to the sensible, sober, realistic political establishment &#8212; one that believes unemployment benefits create jobs, and<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=29749\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36887,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749\/revisions\/36887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}