{"id":1176,"date":"2009-09-29T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2009-09-29T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T13:03:21","slug":"qotd-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/qotd-confessions\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Confessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Whew, I&#8217;m pooped. Jimmy Carter has got me run ragged with all the hating I&#8217;m supposed to do. Jimmy says I&#8217;m a racist because I oppose President Obama&#8217;s health care reform program. Even Jimmy Carter can&#8217;t be wrong all the time. And since Jimmy Carter has been wrong about every single thing for the past 44 years, maybe &mdash; just as a matter of statistical probability &mdash; he&#8217;s right this time.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t noticed I was a racist, but that was no doubt because I was too busy being a homophobe. Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot. Since I do not want America to suffer another Sean Penn movie, I will accept that I&#8217;m a homophobe, too. And I&#8217;m a male chauvinist due to the fact that I think Nancy Pelosi is blowing smoke &mdash; excuse me, carbon neutral, biodegradable airborne particulate matter &mdash; out her pantsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m pretty sure Rahm Emanuel is Jewish, and you can&#8217;t be against (or even for) President Obama without the involvement of Rahm Emanuel, so I&#8217;m an anti-Semite. Furthermore, although I personally happen to be a libertarian on immigration issues, I do agree with Joe Wilson that you can&#8217;t say you&#8217;re expanding health care to the poor and then pretend you&#8217;re going to turn those poor away if their driver&#8217;s licenses look a little Xeroxy and what&#8217;s on their Social Security cards turns out to be a toll-free number for a La Raza hotline. Thus I&#8217;m prejudiced against Hispanics as well. <\/p>\n<p>P.J. O&#8217;Rourke, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/017\/008eivbr.asp\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Outsourcing Hate: The burdens of conservatism in the Obama age&#8221;, <em>The Weekly Standard<\/em><\/a>, 2009-10-05<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew, I&#8217;m pooped. Jimmy Carter has got me run ragged with all the hating I&#8217;m supposed to do. Jimmy says I&#8217;m a racist because I oppose President Obama&#8217;s health care reform program. Even Jimmy Carter can&#8217;t be wrong all the time. And since Jimmy Carter has been wrong about every single thing for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13],"tags":[304,302,99,303],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-antisemitism","tag-jimmycarter","tag-racism","tag-sexism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-iY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}