{"id":1108,"date":"2008-10-14T05:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T10:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2008-10-14T05:03:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T10:03:32","slug":"a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"A Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a hard time understanding how anyone in my acquaintance could either support or defend Barack Obama.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s because I believe, or believed, that my friends and closest relatives have above-average intelligence and political sensibilities and are liberty-loving people.<br \/>\nObama asked the Justice Department to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73812\" target=\"_blank\">shut down the American Issues Project<\/a> for running ads about his relationship with William Ayers.<br \/>\nThis past August, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to intimidate radio station WGN by <a href=\"http:\/\/media.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=ZmRhYmE3NzFlMTljNTdmZGQ3MjhkYTVjNzdmMjVhMzE=\" target=\"_blank\">flooding the show<\/a> with calls when respected conservative commentator <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Kurtz\" target=\"_blank\">Stanley Kurtz<\/a> was a guest on the Milt Rosenberg show.<br \/>\nIncredible, isn&#8217;t it, that liberal news organizations like the Washington Post and the New York Times have ignored these assaults on freedom of political speech, simply because of their adolescent infatuation with a fascist who wears clothes well and has a good speaking voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a hard time understanding how anyone in my acquaintance could either support or defend Barack Obama. That&#8217;s because I believe, or believed, that my friends and closest relatives have above-average intelligence and political sensibilities and are liberty-loving people. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}