{"id":1077,"date":"2004-06-30T23:49:22","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T06:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2004-06-30T23:49:22","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T06:49:22","slug":"its-raining-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/06\/30\/its-raining-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Raining Hitler!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002433\"><\/a>The RNC recently released, on its website, a political ad entitled &#8220;It&#8217;s not a time for Pessimism and Rage&#8221; which sticks Al Gore, Dick Gephardt, and Howard Dean footage next to footage of Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>Their reasoning being that the Adolf Hitler footage came from a Moveon.org advertisement.  An open Contest, mind you.  Shown more prominently and longer on the RNC website than on Moveon.org&#8217;s website, mind you.<\/p>\n<p>John Kerry speaks out: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate.&#8221;  The RNC responds: &#8220;Are you going to denounce Al Gore&#8217;s, Dick Gephardt&#8217;s and Howard Dean&#8217;s speeches?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those wry figureheads of the RNC&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pondering something, though.  Suppose a presidential candidate comes around that promises the extermination of the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The opposing candidate then makes a comparison of this candidate to Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>Now, say, hypothetically, that this candidate says &#8220;You can&#8217;t make Hitler comparisons too lightly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hypothetically&#8230; wouldn&#8217;t that be a curious situation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RNC recently released, on its website, a political ad entitled &#8220;It&#8217;s not a time for Pessimism and Rage&#8221; which sticks Al Gore, Dick Gephardt, and Howard Dean footage next to footage of Adolf Hitler. Their reasoning being that the Adolf Hitler footage came from a Moveon.org advertisement. An open Contest, mind you. Shown more [&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-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}