{"id":3542,"date":"2009-10-09T20:19:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T00:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2009-10-10T00:36:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T04:36:33","slug":"were-used-to-it-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/09\/were-used-to-it-but\/","title":{"rendered":"we’re used to it, but…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It pours out in a steady stream, every day. And we are<\/u> used to it. But, if you think about it for a moment, it’s a travesty that this man has a public place to blather. And the Republicans? Last week the cheered when Chicago didn’t get the Olympics. Today they made affirmative action jokes about the Nobel Peace Prize<\/font>. The RNC<\/strong><\/a> said:<\/div>\n
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"The real question Americans are asking is, ‘What has President Obama actually accomplished?’ It is unfortunate that the president’s star power has outshined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights. One thing is certain – President Obama won’t be receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility, or backing up rhetoric with concrete action."<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I wish I could just ignore it, but I can’t. I think it makes me feel ashamed of living in a country where this kind of sarcastic venom is widely listened to.  They say it isn’t racist. Well, what is it? I’ll have to admit that I really enjoyed reading this:<\/div>\n
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Black NFL players crush prospect of playing for a Rush Limbaugh-owned St. Louis Rams<\/a><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n
BY Ohm Youngmisuk<\/div>\n
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER<\/strong><\/div>\n
October 9th 2009<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mathias Kiwanuka loves his former defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, but the Giants’ defensive end says he will never play for Spagnuolo’s Rams if Rush Limbaugh purchases the team. Kiwanuka and the Jets’ Bart Scott made it clear Thursday that they would never play for the Rams or any team owned by the controversial conservative radio host. <\/p>\n

"All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in [President] Obama’s America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting ‘right on,’" Kiwanuka told The Daily News. "I mean, I don’t want anything to do with a team that he has any part of. He can do whatever he wants, it is a free country. But if it goes through, I can tell you where I am not going to play." <\/p>\n

"I am not going to draw a conclusion from a person off of one comment, but when it is time after time after time and there’s a consistent pattern of disrespect and just a complete misunderstanding of an entire culture that I am a part of, I can’t respect him as a man"…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It pours out in a steady stream, every day. And we are used to it. But, if you think about it for a moment, it’s a travesty that this man has a public place to blather. And the Republicans? Last week the cheered when Chicago didn’t get the Olympics. Today they made affirmative action jokes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}