{"id":801,"date":"2009-09-04T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2009-09-04T14:29:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T18:29:41","slug":"if-there-are-four-stories-about-obamas-school-speech-on-twonhall-does-that-count-as-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"If there are four stories about Obama&#8217;s school speech on Townhall, does that count as traction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing about this bizarre story, and I can&#8217;t believe it won&#8217;t go away. \u00a0Obama plans to welcome students back to school with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/mediaresources\/\">speech that will be show in public schools on September 8, 2009<\/a>. \u00a0After a month of fear mongering and threats surrounding the healthcare debate, it seems that a few activists on the Right have overshot the mark by claiming that Obama&#8217;s pep talk to returning students is, in fact, and indoctrination effort aimed at engineering the latest version of Hitler Youth. \u00a0This is an especially crazy premise given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reagan.utexas.edu\/archives\/speeches\/1988\/111488c.htm\">the fact that President did the same thing in 1988<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s enough different ways to attack the current administration (from both sides), that I would think his enemies would let this one go like they seem to have let go of the bizarre and untrue allegation that Obama is not an American citizen. \u00a0I&#8217;m not about to put Rush Limbaugh on the radio here at work &#8211; it&#8217;s one thing to check in \u00a0with that stuff when it&#8217;s just me in the car, but I&#8217;m not going to subject my co-workers to such madness in the name of &#8220;know thine enemy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I did decide to look at Townhall.com, which is no less nutty. \u00a0And, to my surprise, <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/images\/townhall.pdf\">there are 4 stories and\/or columns addressing the acute danger<\/a> presented by Obama telling kids to study hard and stay in school.<\/p>\n<p>IOKIYAR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing about this bizarre story, and I can&#8217;t believe it won&#8217;t go away. \u00a0Obama plans to welcome students back to school with a speech that will be show in public schools on September 8, 2009. \u00a0After a month &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=801\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[324,752,243,753,751],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}