{"id":4628,"date":"2011-01-17T23:55:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T03:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2011-01-17T23:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T03:55:47","slug":"oh-poor-you-the-story-of-americas-newest-whiny-little-bitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2011\/01\/17\/oh-poor-you-the-story-of-americas-newest-whiny-little-bitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Poor You: The Story of America&#8217;s Newest Whiny Little Bitches*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Parnee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/republican_party\/index.html?story=\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/01\/17\/persecuted_republicans\">starts it off<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[ . . . ] 28 years later, it&#8217;s hard to imagine even a deeply Republican Congress opposing a holiday dedicated to Dr. King &#8212; in part because some contemporary conservatives like to pretend the civil rights activist was or would be a Republican, but mostly because conservatives have spent years pretending to be a persecuted minority group.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why something like Sarah Palin claiming to be a victim of &#8220;blood libel&#8221; doesn&#8217;t raise an eyebrow among the true believers. It&#8217;s the myth that keeps the checks rolling in for most right-wingers. The liberals are all-powerful and they oppress us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s become a core part of the Republican\/conservative identity, it seems, to claim to be a horribly oppressed group (that just happens to have the upper hand in most of society&#8217;s levers). \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve got zero patience for this bullshit, and I urge others to adopt the same stance. \u00c2\u00a0Aren&#8217;t these the same people always going on about civility and the importance of responsibility? \u00c2\u00a0Well, if that&#8217;s so important, why can&#8217;t they be honest about the actual state of things?<\/p>\n<p>*And truly, I mean that in the most offensive way possible. \u00c2\u00a0Pat Buchanan, feeling like he&#8217;s got a <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/01\/pat-buchanan-left-has-been-conducting-something-of-a-lynch-mob-against-palin-beck-limbaugh.php?ref=fpblg\">lynch mob<\/a> after him? \u00c2\u00a0Seriously, Pat, go to hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Parnee starts it off: [ . . . ] 28 years later, it&#8217;s hard to imagine even a deeply Republican Congress opposing a holiday dedicated to Dr. King &#8212; in part because some contemporary conservatives like to pretend the civil rights activist was or would be a Republican, but mostly because conservatives have spent [&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":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","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=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}