{"id":9776,"date":"2012-12-13T20:24:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T04:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9776"},"modified":"2012-12-13T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T04:23:09","slug":"speed-blogging-whites-on-rice-union-thugs-pretend-voting-rights-fight-gop-government-waste-tortured-filmmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9776","title":{"rendered":"Speed Blogging: Whites on Rice, &#8216;Union Thugs&#8217;, Pretend Voting Rights Fight, GOP Government Waste, Tortured Filmmaking&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few items of late that have caught our eye, but we haven&#8217;t had time to cover in detail. So, you get the Readers Digest versions for now. You&#8217;re welcome!<\/p>\n<p>&bull; <b>Susan Rice and the Democrats<\/b> once again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/susan-rice-my-withdrawal-from-secretary-of-state-consideration-was-right-call\/2012\/12\/13\/ad69b3fc-4578-11e2-9648-a2c323a991d6_story.html\">succumb to the demands of terrorists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Whodathunkit? But <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/12\/steven-crowder-no-charges.php\">questions arise about the legitimacy<\/a> of the claims made by Fox&#8217; latest wannabe <b>James O&#8217;Keefe<\/b>, about that video purporting to show an &#8220;unprovoked attack&#8221; by &#8220;union thugs&#8221; outside the capital building in Lansing, MI this week. The most amazing part? Someone at <i>The New York Times<\/i> &#8212; yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7755\"><i>that<\/i> <i>New York Times<\/i><\/a> &#8212; is one of those actually noticing <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/12\/selective-editing-by-fox-news-contributor-revealed-by-fox-news\/?smid=tw-thelede&#038;seid=auto\">the big honkin&#8217; edit<\/a> in the middle of the video, rather than just reporting it all as unquestioned fact.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; <b>Eric Holder<\/b> spoke about the need to protect voting rights at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. We have more than a few bones to pick about it, but we&#8217;ll just <a href=\"http:\/\/news.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/12\/eric-holder-speech-at-the-john-f-kennedy-presidential-library.php\">point you to the actual speech<\/a> for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; What&#8217;s the difference between this and just stealing? <b>House Republicans<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2012\/12\/13\/1332591\/house-republicans-authorize-500000-more-to-defend-unconstitutional-marriage-inequality-law\/\">secretly &#8212; <em>secretly<\/em> &#8212; authorized $500,000 in tax payer dollars<\/a> to defend the unconstitutional &#8220;Defense of Marriage Act&#8221;. More of that small government &#8220;conservatism&#8221;, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Finally, for now, the critically acclaimed <i>Zero Dark Thirty<\/i>, the new theatrical film about the manhunt for <b>Osama Bin Laden<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/dec\/10\/zero-dark-thirty-torture-awards\">reportedly glorifies the torture<\/a> that led to his capture and killing, even though no torture whatsoever actually led to his capture and killing.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few items of late that have caught our eye, but we haven&#8217;t had time to cover in detail. So, you get the Readers Digest versions for now. You&#8217;re welcome! &bull; Susan Rice and the Democrats once again succumb to the demands of terrorists. &bull; Whodathunkit? But questions arise about the legitimacy of the claims [&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":[192,239,405,299,223,404,14,309,449,305,300,126,586,366,198,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-bush-legacy","category-democrats","category-dept-of-justice","category-eric-holder","category-fox-news","category-gay-marriage","category-james-okeefe","category-michigan","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-susan-rice","category-torture","category-us-house","category-war-on-terror","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776","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=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}