{"id":1435,"date":"2008-10-13T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2008-10-13T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T15:20:45","slug":"that-jeff-frederick-such-a-fine-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/13\/that-jeff-frederick-such-a-fine-young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"That Jeff Frederick, Such a Fine Young Man . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Frederick, recently-elected Chair of the Virginia Republican Party, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/12\/AR2008101201956.html?hpid=topnews\">thought it was a good idea to say that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;both Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden have friends that have bombed the Pentagon. That is scary.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s about as reasonable as saying both John McCain and Osama Bin Laden have killed civilians while furthering their political ambitions.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And of course, McCain &#8220;would have to look at the context&#8221; before he can really judge that remark.\u00c2\u00a0 But hey, Jeff&#8217;s just sayin&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And <a href=\"http:\/\/waldo.jaquith.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/my-rpv-convention-wish-list\/\">Waldo&#8217;s rule about RPV choices<\/a> just gets more and more evidentiary support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Frederick, recently-elected Chair of the Virginia Republican Party, thought it was a good idea to say that: &#8220;both Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden have friends that have bombed the Pentagon. That is scary.&#8221; Really.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s about as reasonable as saying both John McCain and Osama Bin Laden have killed civilians while furthering their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}