{"id":5261,"date":"2008-10-31T00:19:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T07:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2008-10-31T00:19:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T07:39:31","slug":"i-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5261","title":{"rendered":"I Give Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/barack-x.jpg\" title=\"barack-x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/barack-x.jpg\" alt=\"barack-x.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" vspace=0 border=0 hspace=4 \/><\/a>I was going to try to come up with some sort of snarky rejoinder to this, but really, how could I? If I tried to argue that Barack Obama was the son of Lao Tzu and Booker T. Washington, I couldn&#8217;t come up with a more incomprehensible and bizarre argument than the one Pam Gellar came up with, arguing that Barack Hussein Super-Allah Karl Marx Gaius Baltar Benedict Arnold Adolf Mondale Hitler Obama Soetro Chirac IV <a href=\"http:\/\/pandagon.net\/index.php\/site\/comments\/my_apologies_to_john_derbyshire\/\">is actually the illegitimate son of Malcolm X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, fuck me gently with a chainsaw, this is the most batshit crazy thing Atlas Pam has ever said, and she&#8217;s ATLAS PAM, fercripesake. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d go so far as to join Jesse in declaring this the dumbest thing ever written, but it&#8217;s in the top ten.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait for the next four years. By 2011, Barack Obama will be the secret love child of Bill Clinton, Al Sharpton, and Jane Fonda. Yes, all three. He will also be the Fifth Cylon, the man on the grassy knoll, and Bill Ayers himself, after extensive plastic surgery. It&#8217;s only gonna get more insane, folks. Buckle up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to try to come up with some sort of snarky rejoinder to this, but really, how could I? If I tried to argue that Barack Obama was the son of Lao Tzu and Booker T. Washington, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,27,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-elections-and-politics","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}