{"id":254632,"date":"2010-01-29T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010931530_theacornstinger.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-01-29T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:18:20","slug":"the-acorn-stinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/254632","title":{"rendered":"The ACORN stinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Double standard exists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cConservative activists caught in phone \u2018fix\u2019\u201d [News, Jan. 27], we see that James O\u2019Keefe III and three others \u201cwere charged with entering federal property under false pretenses to commit a felony.\u201d O\u2019Keefe is the same fruitball who pretended to be a pimp in order to discredit ACORN, an outfit conservatives despise.<\/p>\n<p>If O\u2019Keefe had been a liberal activist, the right wing and most of the mass media \u2014 these days, pretty much the same thing \u2014 would be screaming for his blood and calling him a terrorist: \u201cHe tried to sabotage our democracy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We also see that, since the Watergate disgrace, conservatives have not developed a greater respect for the Constitution and the democratic process, but have developed a proud tradition of encouraging a new generation of \u201cplumbers\u201d to game the system.<\/p>\n<p>And, proving the rotten apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree, when O\u2019Keefe\u2019s father says his son \u201cwouldn\u2019t break the law. He would know better than that,\u201d we see the proudest tradition of conservatives \u2014 when caught doing something wrong: lie, lie, lie.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Michael Spence, Tukwila<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double standard exists In \u201cConservative activists caught in phone \u2018fix\u2019\u201d [News, Jan. 27], we see that James O\u2019Keefe III and three others \u201cwere charged with entering federal property under false pretenses to commit a felony.\u201d O\u2019Keefe is the same fruitball who pretended to be a pimp in order to discredit ACORN, an outfit conservatives despise. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}