{"id":276819,"date":"2010-02-04T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-5108983184250973360"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:50:00","slug":"siding-with-rahm-on-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276819","title":{"rendered":"Siding With Rahm on This One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S2n46H3NZpI\/AAAAAAAAFDE\/Ax1NJ7nwuZE\/s1600-h\/rahm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 244px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S2n46H3NZpI\/AAAAAAAAFDE\/Ax1NJ7nwuZE\/s320\/rahm.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434148102825928338\" \/><\/a>Ugh. Do you know how hard it was to type that?! I&#8217;m totally annoyed with Sarah Palin because thanks to her I have to side with that horror show. <\/p>\n<p>I was driving around yesterday wondering where Palin&#8217;s Tea Party principles had gone&#8230; Let&#8217;s not even get into free speech here, Rahm didn&#8217;t give a statement on the evening news&#8230;he called THE FAR LEFT &#8220;F-ing RETARDED&#8221; BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. Private meeting, hello? An America where you can&#8217;t say that liberals are F-ing retarded? What kind of America is that? So, <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2010\/02\/emanuel-apologizes-for-using-the-r-word\/1\">he apologized<\/a> -under duress I&#8217;m sure and prompted by the manufactured rage I hate so much? Am I under-reacting? Would my response be different if one of my kids had Down&#8217;s? I really don&#8217;t think so. No. I&#8217;m 99% sure I&#8217;d be writing the same post.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious when using the term &#8216;retarded&#8217; became equivalent to using the N-word? Retarded means slow. You can retard something&#8217;s growth. It&#8217;s not a made up word just to denigrate someone. I understand being upset over &#8216;retard&#8217;&#8230;but retarded is an obsolete label anyway, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Sarah Palin reprimands her kids if they call something &#8220;gay?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-5108983184250973360?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh. Do you know how hard it was to type that?! I&#8217;m totally annoyed with Sarah Palin because thanks to her I have to side with that horror show. I was driving around yesterday wondering where Palin&#8217;s Tea Party principles had gone&#8230; Let&#8217;s not even get into free speech here, Rahm didn&#8217;t give a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276819","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}