{"id":6547,"date":"2011-11-17T02:27:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2011-11-17T02:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T02:38:03","slug":"meme-alert-newt-is-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6547","title":{"rendered":"Meme Alert!  Newt Is Dumb!"},"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=\"Meme%20Alert%21%20%20Newt%20Is%20Dumb%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/11\/the-gingrich-proposition-ctd.html\">this is the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/11\/newt-is-dumb.html\">latest meme<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve come across this silliness.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also seen the same applied to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;address=389x1117151\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>, and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2010\/12\/the-danger-of-cosmic-genius\/8306\/\">Freeman Dyson<\/a>.\u00a0 Why are they &#8220;<em>dumb<\/em>&#8220;? Because they have differing opinions on issues than liberals do, such as Hanson&#8217;s views on immigration and Dyson&#8217;s refusal to march lock-step with the sky-is-falling global warming crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Note to the smug liberal crowd\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Just because someone has differing views than you do, that doesn&#8217;t mean they are dumb! You simply have differing views on things.\u00a0 Period.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I don&#8217;t think those who are pursuing this meme are dumb&#8230;\u00a0 I just think you&#8217;re stupid for being so idiotic!!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=\"Meme%20Alert%21%20%20Newt%20Is%20Dumb%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Yep, this is the latest meme! This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve come across this silliness.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also seen the same applied to Victor Davis Hanson, and to Freeman Dyson.\u00a0 Why are they &#8220;dumb&#8220;? Because they have differing opinions on issues than liberals do, such as Hanson&#8217;s views on immigration and Dyson&#8217;s refusal to march [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547"}],"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=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}