{"id":8708,"date":"2009-09-14T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2009-09-14T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:44:12","slug":"congratulations-teabaggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8708","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Teabaggers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wow! You drew 2 million people to Washington on Saturday! I mean,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/2009\/09\/14\/more-right-wing-math-follies\/\" target=\"_blank\">someone said ABC News said you did<\/a>, and clearly that&#8217;s totally accurate, just as accurate as the thing I heard where Fox News is reporting that Barack Obama currently has an 193% approval rating. Also, you&#8217;ve got really convincing pictures, like this one, that show a totally full mall\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phoenixwoman.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/13\/teabaggers-recycling-old-promise-keeper-pics-to-falsely-claim-huge-attendance-at-dc-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\">from a rally that occurred over a decade ago<\/a>, thus proving that Al Gore once grew his beard out.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, hey, it&#8217;s a pretty nice picture. But frankly, it&#8217;s a bit of a wide shot. I, for one, would use a more intimate one, one that shows some of the joy of the moment. Here&#8217;s one that is at least as accurate as the one you used, and I, for one, like it:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/KingPhoto-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/KingPhoto-sm.jpg\" alt=\"KingPhoto-sm\" width=\"350\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome. Oh, and just to show I&#8217;m fair and balanced, here, via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/2009\/09\/14\/the-opposition-is-stupid\/\" target=\"_blank\">ODub<\/a>, is \u00a0an image of one of the actual teabaggers, with a message that sums up the right-wing view of the world as coherently as anything I&#8217;ve ever seen:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/coherence-300x226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/coherence-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"coherence\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! You drew 2 million people to Washington on Saturday! I mean,\u00a0someone said ABC News said you did, and clearly that&#8217;s totally accurate, just as accurate as the thing I heard where Fox News is reporting that Barack Obama currently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8708\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}