{"id":1799,"date":"2009-09-12T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T02:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2009-09-16T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T13:47:45","slug":"the-ragged-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"The Ragged Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, comparing any American President to Hitler is beyond stupid; it&#8217;s ridiculously offensive. But when I see <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/09\/more-reason-from-the-right.html#more\">signs like this<\/a>, I have to wonder what percentage of the protestors are saying such things.  The media and the Left have a tendency to find the most stupid and extreme representative and claim they are part of the whole.  But my Dad was part of today&#8217;s protests; he was going up with about a thousand other doctors to talk to Congressmen and explain the problems they have with the healthcare bill.  Why does that get zero press and the Hitler-sign-toting fucktards get plenty?<\/p>\n<p>Because it fits a narrative, that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Welch has a much fairer take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/136041.html\">here<\/a>.  Interestingly, the protestors are very anti-Bush as well as anti-Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, comparing any American President to Hitler is beyond stupid; it&#8217;s ridiculously offensive. But when I see signs like this, I have to wonder what percentage of the protestors are saying such things. The media and the Left have a tendency to find the most stupid and extreme representative and claim they are part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ragged Edge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-t1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}