{"id":12295,"date":"2011-05-17T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12295"},"modified":"2011-05-17T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:54:59","slug":"a-real-life-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12295","title":{"rendered":"He's a well respected man about town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly thought <a href='http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2011\/05\/17\/ben-stein-watch-dsk-edition\/'>this article about Ben Stein's defense of the alleged IMF rapist<\/a> was one of those \"shorter\" things, where one blogger sarcastically paraphrases another blogger in order to make the latter look stupid. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>If he is such a womanizer and violent guy with women, why didn\u2019t he ever get charged until now?\n<li>This is a case about the hatred of the have-nots for the haves, and that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.\n<li>So far, he\u2019s innocent, and he\u2019s being treated shamefully. If he\u2019s found guilty, there will be plenty of time to criticize him.\n<li>Can anyone tell me any economists who have been convicted of violent sex crimes?\n<li>Maybe Mr. Strauss-Kahn is guilty but if so, he is one of a kind, and criminals are not usually one of a kind.\n<\/ol>\n<p>Etc..\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, it's not a \"shorter\". Those are actual lines from a piece that Ben Stein actually wrote and <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2011\/05\/17\/presumed-innocent-anyone\">signed his name to<\/a>. And it's only half of the list. Go read the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly thought this article about Ben Stein's defense of the alleged IMF rapist was one of those \"shorter\" things, where one blogger sarcastically paraphrases another blogger in order to make the latter look stupid. If he is such a womanizer and violent guy with women, why didn\u2019t he ever get charged until now? This [&hellip;]<\/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-12295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}