{"id":2703,"date":"2008-08-24T19:01:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T02:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/08\/24\/one-good-upshot-of-joseph-biden\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T19:01:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T02:01:15","slug":"one-good-upshot-of-joseph-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/08\/24\/one-good-upshot-of-joseph-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"One good upshot of Joseph Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that this grouping of people who were complaining about a double standard in the &#8220;Monkey Department&#8221; &#8212; which is that when Obama is portrayed as a monkey it&#8217;s deemed racist, but but but&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Liberals have been portraying George W Bush as a monkey for the past eight years (there&#8217;s even a web-page devoted to comparisons between Bush and monkeys), now have a good out.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they get to photoshop Joseph Biden as a monkey.\u00c2\u00a0 So, go at it folks!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this would have worked for any vice presidential selection, and it&#8217;s still doubtful that Biden will be portrayed as a monkey, even as it is certain that the Obama &#8211; monkey shirt will remain selling in Confederate states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that this grouping of people who were complaining about a double standard in the &#8220;Monkey Department&#8221; &#8212; which is that when Obama is portrayed as a monkey it&#8217;s deemed racist, but but but&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Liberals have been portraying George W Bush as a monkey for the past eight years (there&#8217;s even a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","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=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}