{"id":25131,"date":"2010-01-15T08:49:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/15\/ebert-limbaugh-you-should-be-h\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T08:49:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T08:49:27","slug":"ebert-limbaugh-you-should-be-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/ebert-limbaugh-you-should-be-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebert: &#8220;Limbaugh, you should be horse-whipped&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I know all the ditto heads are going to show up and start arguing whether or not &#8220;horse-whipped&#8221; is spelled with a dash, but that is just a distraction. Check this out:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You should be horse-whipped for the insult you have paid to the highest office of our nation.<\/p>\n<p>Having followed President Obama&#8217;s suggestion and donated money to the Red Cross for relief in Haiti, I was offended to hear you suggest the President might be a thief capable of stealing money intended for the earthquake victims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the record, Ebert provides a transcript of Limberger&#8217;s asinine remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><br \/>\nJustin of Raleigh, North Carolina<\/strong>: &#8220;Why does Obama say if you want to donate some money, you could go to whitehouse.gov to direct you how to do so? If I wanted to donate to the Red Cross, why do I have to go to the White House page to donate?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Limbaugh:<\/strong> &#8220;Exactly. Would you trust the money&#8217;s gonna go to Haiti?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong> &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rush:<\/strong> &#8220;But would you trust that your name&#8217;s gonna end up on a mailing list for the Obama people to start asking you for campaign donations for him and other causes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong> &#8220;Absolutely!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Limbaugh:<\/strong> &#8220;Absolutely!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Raleigh North Carolina.  &#8230;  Sounds like a place with a lot of yahoos. Not a place I&#8217;d like to visit, that&#8217;s for sure!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100114\/OPINION\/100119985\"><br \/>\nEbert&#8217;s Post is here.<\/a>  Hat tip: Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I know all the ditto heads are going to show up and start arguing whether or not &#8220;horse-whipped&#8221; is spelled with a dash, but that is just a distraction. Check this out:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6xl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}