{"id":9089,"date":"2006-11-17T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9089.html"},"modified":"2006-11-17T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T14:15:15","slug":"the-imbeciles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-imbeciles\/","title":{"rendered":"The imbeciles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-reaction.blogspot.com\/\">Michael J.W. Stickings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grover Norquist<\/strong> on Don Sherwood, the Pennsylvania Republican who lost his House seat to Chris Carney and whose mistress accused him of choking her: &#8220;Bob [sic] Sherwood\u2019s seat would have been overwhelmingly ours, if his mistress hadn\u2019t whined about being throttled.&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/pandagon.net\/2006\/11\/13\/when-you-throttle-that-mistress-remember-that-youre-only-throttling-your-own-polls\/\">Pandagon<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glenn Beck<\/strong> to Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim ever elected to Congress: &#8220;[Y]ou are a Democrat. You are saying, &#8216;Let&#8217;s cut and run.&#8217; And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, &#8216;Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.'&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200611150004\">Media Matters<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, various right-wingers want to <a href=\"http:\/\/the-reaction.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/right-wingers-kill-all-state.html\">blow up the State Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(And I haven&#8217;t even mentioned Coulter or Malkin.)<\/p>\n<p>Nice, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Grover Norquist on Don Sherwood, the Pennsylvania Republican who lost his House seat to Chris Carney and whose mistress accused him of choking her: &#8220;Bob [sic] Sherwood\u2019s seat would have been overwhelmingly ours, if his mistress hadn\u2019t whined about being throttled.&#8221; (via Pandagon) Glenn Beck to Keith Ellison (D-MN), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}