{"id":5592,"date":"2011-11-26T22:21:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2011-11-26T22:21:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:21:59","slug":"the-perfect-holiday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/the-perfect-holiday-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Holiday Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For your uncle who is in the Tea Party!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1118197674\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=1118197674\">The Madness of Michele Bachmann: A Broad-Minded Survey of a Small-Minded Candidate<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1118197674&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is a &#8220;&#8230; fact-packed expos\u00e9 [with] all the dirty little secrets that Michele Bachmann would rather you didn&#8217;t know&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Folks in Minnesota have been watching Michele Bachmann for a lot longer than the national press corps, and as far as I can tell, the national press has utterly ignored some of the more interesting episodes in her public life.  I suppose they were waiting until later on in the election cycle to bring up some of these interesting moments.<\/p>\n<p>But you don&#8217;t have to wait.  I have not read this book, but I&#8217;ve been reading the authors&#8217;s work for years, and I&#8217;m quite sure it will have everything about Bachmann&#8217;s Krazy with the possible exception of the story of how I started her out in her political career (I believe the author is unaware of that little episode, and frankly, I don&#8217;t like to talk about it much).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since Michele Bachmann became a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, journalists have been plumbing the depths of the well-regarded blog Dump Bachmann for material on her. Now the bloggers themselves pour forth a decade&#8217;s worth of research and analysis to show that, no matter what you&#8217;ve heard about Bachmann, there&#8217;s worse. Much worse. After dogging her heels for the past decade, they reveal the blood-curdling truth about the woman who may well become the Republican Party\u2019s 2012 presidential nominee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your uncle who is in the Tea Party!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[366,341,284,883],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1sc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592"}],"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=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}