{"id":7426,"date":"2009-09-20T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7426"},"modified":"2009-09-21T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T18:15:57","slug":"brad-at-the-uk-guardian-the-acorn-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7426","title":{"rendered":"Brad at the UK Guardian: The ACORN Idiocy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TheBradBlog_GuardianUK_small.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7422\">noted late last week<\/a> while covering Joe Conason&#8217;s smart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/conason\/2009\/09\/18\/acorn\/\">&#8220;In Defense of ACORN&#8221;<\/a> at Salon, the UK <i>Guardian<\/i> had, earlier in the week, asked me to ring in on the latest ACORN nonsense. So I did. It&#8217;s been published today. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2009\/sep\/20\/acorn-republicans-voter-fraud\">read it here online&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <i>Guardian<\/i> eds tell me the short piece will also run as well on Monday in their print edition.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE 7:49pm PT:<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/2009\/09\/20\/u-k-guardian-columnist-acorn-the-new-republican-bogeyman\/\">Welcome Drudge\/Breitbart fans!<\/a>  While you&#8217;re here, be sure to peruse what&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7421\">about to break in <em>American Conservative<\/em> magazine<\/a>! We&#8217;ll have some exclusive advanced details for ya very soon, which I believe you&#8217;ll enjoy, which actually matter, and which may even distract you from your silly, misinformed ACORN-rage for a minute or two! Have a nice night! (<em>Note to regular <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\">BRAD BLOG<\/a> readers and others still in touch with their mental faculties: Be sure to read the comments from the geniuses over at the Breitbart link I gave you above. They&#8217;re a hoot! Who knew I was a &#8220;limey SOB&#8221;?! \ud83d\ude42 <\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted late last week while covering Joe Conason&#8217;s smart &#8220;In Defense of ACORN&#8221; at Salon, the UK Guardian had, earlier in the week, asked me to ring in on the latest ACORN nonsense. So I did. It&#8217;s been published today. You can read it here online&#8230; The Guardian eds tell me the short piece [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,89],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acorn","category-media-appearance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426","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=7426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}