{"id":4288,"date":"2010-11-05T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T15:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:15:50","slug":"the-memes-they-just-wont-let-die-dems-lost-because-americans-are-gun-toting-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4288","title":{"rendered":"A Two-Fer!  The Memes They Just Won&#8217;t Let Die &#8211; Dems Lost Because Americans Are Gun Toting Racist!  UPDATED."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"A%20Two-Fer%21%20%20The%20Memes%20They%20Just%20Won%27t%20Let%20Die%20-%20Dems%20Lost%20Because%20Americans%20Are%20Gun%20Toting%20Racist%21%20%20UPDATED.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"graaayson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/images\/magazine\/bios\/graydon-parry-180px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From Graaaaaydon Caaaaarter, the uber-sophisticate editor of&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/magazine\/2010\/12\/graydon-201012\">Vaaaaaanity Fair<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, anger certainly continues to be all the rage in the corridors of American politics. Not to mention American corridors in general. Polls taken prior to the November midterm election indicated that a surprising number of Obama voters said they were going to vote Republican this time and an equally surprising number of McCain supporters said they would be backing Democratic candidates. What that is about, God knows. The general anti-Obama rage out there is palpable. But it\u2019s no more virulent than the anti-Bush sentiment that has pervaded the country for much of the past decade\u2014<strong>although this being America, there\u2019s an attendant hatred for Obama that has more to do with race than anything else<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uhm&#8230; Dude. Did the voters who vote for Obama but switched to Republicans this time, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaypatriot.net\/2010\/11\/04\/gay-americans-made-important-contribution-to-gop-wins\/\">half of the 31% of gays who voted Republican this time around<\/a>, suddenly become racist????? \u00a0The\u00a0esteemed\u00a0Graaaaaydon Caaaaarter continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What makes today\u2019s fury more worrying is the <strong>fact<\/strong> [?] that <strong>angry right-wing extremists tend to carry guns in disproportionate numbers to their liberal counterparts.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can someone from NPR please explain to this erudite fellow that you can&#8217;t make these type of sweeping generalizations based on irrational&#8230; Oh.  You can?&#8230; If it concerns angry white gun-totting bible-thumping male conservatives????<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED: Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\">Glenn Reynolds<\/a>, a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/the-day-in-stupid-election-rea\">Reason Hit and Run<\/a>,\u00a0documenting\u00a0more stupid and\u00a0inane\u00a0post election coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"A%20Two-Fer%21%20%20The%20Memes%20They%20Just%20Won%27t%20Let%20Die%20-%20Dems%20Lost%20Because%20Americans%20Are%20Gun%20Toting%20Racist%21%20%20UPDATED.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>From Graaaaaydon Caaaaarter, the uber-sophisticate editor of&#8230;. Vaaaaaanity Fair: Well, anger certainly continues to be all the rage in the corridors of American politics. Not to mention American corridors in general. Polls taken prior to the November midterm election indicated that a surprising number of Obama voters said they were going to vote Republican this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,39,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}