{"id":441585,"date":"2010-03-18T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=73575"},"modified":"2010-03-18T04:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T08:30:12","slug":"fanfare-for-the-common-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/441585","title":{"rendered":"Fanfare for the Common Ass****"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you could play Aaron <s>Copeland&#8217;s<\/s> Copland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fanfare_for_the_common_man\">classic tribute<\/a> to the ordinary citizen using only one hand and your armpit &#8212; you might approach the intellectual quality of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/03\/dumb-press-releases-own-goal-edition\/37623\/\">Megan McArdle&#8217;s<\/a> discourse on public behavior.<\/p>\n<p>You may have already seen this&#8230;Ohio teabaggers show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/live\/content\/multimedia\/video\/video.html?video=949486\">kindness and affection<\/a> toward an individual with parkinson&#8217;s disease, obviously influenced by noted humanitarian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xpFC9uziVhE&#038;feature=related\">Rush Limbaugh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"375\" height=\"226\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6ik4f1dRbP8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6ik4f1dRbP8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"375\" height=\"226\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>To be sure, the people mocking the counter-protester come across as louts.  But their behavior doesn&#8217;t exactly seem to be out of bounds by the standards of protest and counterprotesters&#8230;No matter how frail his condition, could the fellow on the ground possibly have been seriously endangered by having two bills hurled his way? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d certainly be willing to take such harsh treatment from the nice folks at Progress Ohio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, mocked, abused and patronized for a serious disability or illness is the price you pay for not being &#8220;put down&#8221; or something in Megan&#8217;s libertarian paradise.  And among the right-wing, she was <a href=\"http:\/\/instaputz.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/further-adventures-in-compassionate.html\">the classy one<\/a>.  Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Megan is willing to have people throw money at her in Columbus, Ohio? She could likely find the perpetrators of this abuse here &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kahootsonline.com\/club\/\">so have at it McArdle.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=73575&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_73575\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you could play Aaron Copeland&#8217;s Copland&#8217;s classic tribute to the ordinary citizen using only one hand and your armpit &#8212; you might approach the intellectual quality of Megan McArdle&#8217;s discourse on public behavior. You may have already seen this&#8230;Ohio teabaggers show kindness and affection toward an individual with parkinson&#8217;s disease, obviously influenced by noted [&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-441585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441585","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=441585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}