{"id":2251,"date":"2006-01-08T12:06:57","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T16:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2006-01-08T12:06:57","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T16:06:57","slug":"cannon-shoots-at-the-all-purpose-gop-conspiracy-theory-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"Cannon Shoots at the All-Purpose GOP &#8216;Conspiracy Theory&#8217; Defense&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back from a brief &#8220;working vacation,&#8221; the esteemable Joseph Cannon is back with <a href=\"http:\/\/cannonfire.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/conspiracy-theories.html\">a few worthy thoughts on &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221;<\/a> as the GOP&#8217;s dismissive political tool of choice these days&#8230;whenever their back is against the wall.<\/p>\n<p>His thoughts were spurred, in part, by Arizona Sec. of State Jan Brewer&#8217;s foolhardy shot at Election Reform advocates who loudly exercised their First Amendment Rights last week and dang near spoiled her precious re-election campaign announcement. She labeled these constituents as &#8220;anarchists&#8221; and &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; as <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002240.htm\">we reported that evening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m somewhat waylaid while working on several things at once of late, be sure to check in on the various <a href=\"http:\/\/cannonfire.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/conspiracy-theories.html\">anarchic trouble-makings of the conspiracy-theorist Cannon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(In a related thought: At some point, following one Republican indictment after another on <i>charges of conspiracy<\/i>, one would think the wingnuts might want to find a fresh epithet to hurl against those of us who continue to point out their crimes long before the <i>official<\/i> indictments inevitably show up. It&#8217;s up to them, of course, but I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from a brief &#8220;working vacation,&#8221; the esteemable Joseph Cannon is back with a few worthy thoughts on &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; as the GOP&#8217;s dismissive political tool of choice these days&#8230;whenever their back is against the wall. His thoughts were spurred, in part, by Arizona Sec. of State Jan Brewer&#8217;s foolhardy shot at Election Reform advocates [&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":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}