{"id":11005,"date":"2015-01-14T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11005"},"modified":"2015-01-14T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T21:10:06","slug":"former-republican-congressman-calls-for-beheading-of-cowards-at-cnn-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11005","title":{"rendered":"Former Republican Congressman Calls for Beheading of &#8216;Cowards at CNN, MSNBC&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idiot former &#8220;family values&#8221; Congressman and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/news\/joe-walsh-deadbeat-dad\/\">deadbeat dad<\/a> Joe Walsh (R-IL) helps world understand why he was run out of Congress&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p>Let&#39;s hope that when the Islamists next strike they first behead the appeasing cowards at CNN, MSNBC, etal who refused to show the cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalshFreedom\/status\/555439146253426688\">January 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Because nothing says &#8220;courage&#8221; like calling for people to be beheaded! Am I right, Congressman?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Freedom of the Press applies to the publication of offensive cartoons, but not to the decision to <i>not<\/i> publish them, according to the idiot Walsh. If you choose to <i>not<\/i> publish such things, you should be beheaded.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that sort of question I asked about in my <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10998\">&#8220;Why?&#8221;<\/a> piece following the <i>Charlie Hebdo<\/i> massacre last week, and that Glenn Greenwald speaks to even more specifically in <a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/01\/09\/solidarity-charlie-hebdo-cartoons\/\">his own must read piece<\/a> on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be talking a bit more about all of this (and taking calls on it) on <i>The BradCast<\/i> on KPFK\/Pacifica Radio later today. (6-7p ET\/3-4p PT, <a href=\"http:\/\/kpfk.org\/index.php\/listen-live\">streaming live right here<\/a>. If you&#8217;d like to call in, please do: 818-985-5735.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idiot former &#8220;family values&#8221; Congressman and deadbeat dad Joe Walsh (R-IL) helps world understand why he was run out of Congress&#8230; Let&#39;s hope that when the Islamists next strike they first behead the appeasing cowards at CNN, MSNBC, etal who refused to show the cartoons. &mdash; Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 14, 2015 Because nothing says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,19,176,33,712,300,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-cnn","category-journalist-intimidation","category-msnbc","category-religion","category-republicans","category-war-on-terror","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}