{"id":9591,"date":"2010-07-13T08:47:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2010-07-13T08:47:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:47:44","slug":"the-pity-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9591","title":{"rendered":"The Pity Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/07\/12\/naacp-to-condemn-racism-of-the-tea-parties\/?fbid=TP-SEmZBi4U\">\u201cThis is indeed the kettle calling the pot black,\u201d<\/a> Mark Williams, national spokesman of the conservative grassroots group [teabaggers], told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re fighting the government programs that have emasculated the black family,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt\u2019s the Obama administration that rolled back civil rights to a pre-civil rights era with \u2018Obamacare\u2019 in which they removed the concept of individual rights\u2026it\u2019s the Obama administration that put a tax on white people with a tanning salon tax. I mean, this is the kind of stuff the Tea Party movement is fighting. We are fighting for the Constitution of this country, which, by definition, makes this a human rights movement \u2013 a civil rights movement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn't realize the right to cultivate melanoma was a right anyone would want to fight for. But I guess if you've dedicated yourself to fighting everything Obama does, you really have to fight <i>everything<\/i>, even if it means taking skin cancer's side in the fight against ... wait, what ?<\/p>\n<p>No no no. The problem is that they haven't linked the tanning bed tax to something people can relate to. Let me think... oh yeah, here we go: <\/p>\n<p>Obama, the freedom-hating demon, wants to force us to look at strippers who haven't been evenly browned to a rich, glistening, shade of Thanksgiving Turkey Brown. The villain. What's next, a tax on fake tits? Just think of what such a thing would do to the cast of The Jersey Shore!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jerseyshore.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Yo, won't somebody think of us?<\/div>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2010\/07\/13\/fighting-for-the-constitution-pre-14th-amendment\/'>href<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is indeed the kettle calling the pot black,\u201d Mark Williams, national spokesman of the conservative grassroots group [teabaggers], told CNN. \u201cWe\u2019re fighting the government programs that have emasculated the black family,\u201d Williams said. He added: \u201cIt\u2019s the Obama administration that rolled back civil rights to a pre-civil rights era with \u2018Obamacare\u2019 in which they [&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-9591","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\/9591","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=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}