{"id":287058,"date":"2010-02-06T15:02:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2010-02-06T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:02:53","slug":"i%e2%80%99ll-bet-the-gop-media-machine-%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287058","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll bet the GOP media machine \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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… wished it’d never tried to\u00a0co opt the Tea Party movement<\/a>. And I also bet most Tea Partiers wish Joseph Farah didn’t consider himself an ally of the movement.<\/p>\n

Reminds me of an old libertarian joke I blogged about<\/a> a couple of years ago:<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s really no libertarian blueprint. That much is clear if you take even a sidelong glance at the big-L Libertarian Party. It\u2019s full of all manner of cranks, malcontents, isolationists, druggies, tax dodgers and then a whole lot of otherwise average people who just want the government to stay out of their way.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t participate in any party activities for a variety of reasons, most importantly I don\u2019t think the Libertarian Party is honestly serious enough to achieve any real policy goals.<\/p>\n

Here is a paraphrase of a common joke among party participants \u2014 I\u2019ve read this somewhere, but can\u2019t recall where. Maybe on\u00a0Wendy McElroy\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(This block quote is just the joke, not a quote from anyone\u2019s blog)<\/p>\n

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First time Libertarian Party meeting participant, \u201cOh my god, look at that table of Nazis!\u201d<\/p>\n

Old vet, \u201cYep, there\u2019s always at least one.\u201d<\/p>\n

First-timer, \u201cWhat? Nazis?\u201d<\/p>\n

Vet, \u201cNope, someone who bitches about \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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… wished it’d never tried to\u00a0co opt the Tea Party movement. And I also bet most Tea Partiers wish Joseph Farah didn’t consider himself an ally of the movement. Reminds me of an old libertarian joke I blogged about a couple of years ago: There\u2019s really no libertarian blueprint. That much is clear if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287058","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\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}