{"id":5629,"date":"2011-12-02T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2011-12-02T11:40:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:40:32","slug":"a-club-of-liars-demagogues-and-ignoramuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/a-club-of-liars-demagogues-and-ignoramuses\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this commentary by Marc Pitzle<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Africa is a country. In Libya, the Taliban reigns. Muslims are terrorists; most immigrants are criminal; all Occupy protesters are dirty. And women who feel sexually harassed &#8212; well, they shouldn&#8217;t make such a big deal about it.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the wonderful world of the US Republicans&#8230;. The US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals. The current crop of candidates have shown such a basic lack of knowledge that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein. The Grand Old Party is ruining the entire country&#8217;s reputation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,800850,00.html\">Read it here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this commentary by Marc Pitzle Africa is a country. In Libya, the Taliban reigns. Muslims are terrorists; most immigrants are criminal; all Occupy protesters are dirty. And women who feel sexually harassed &#8212; well, they shouldn&#8217;t make such a big deal about it. Welcome to the wonderful world of the US Republicans&#8230;. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/a-club-of-liars-demagogues-and-ignoramuses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[883,284],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1sN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629"}],"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=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}