{"id":319,"date":"2012-01-15T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:41:08","slug":"i-cant-believe-it-i-actually-agree-with-rick-perry-about-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/01\/15\/i-cant-believe-it-i-actually-agree-with-rick-perry-about-something\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t believe it&#8230; I actually agree with Rick Perry about something."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is very scary, I agree with Rick Perry.<\/p>\n<p>Did my apocalypse pager go off and I missed it? Nope! No page and the batteries are good.<\/p>\n<p>Which is to say, that like a broken clock that&#8217;s right twice a day&#8230; &nbsp;Even ultra conservative candidates that I mostly disagree with can make a reasonable point.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another point too. Unlike a lot of the left, I still try to listen to what people say even if I think they&#8217;re full of shit or I disagree with them so deeply that listening to their point of view is a white knuckle experience for me.<\/p>\n<p><i>White knuckle, &nbsp;not because I&#8217;m afraid&#8230; but because I want to jump out of my chair and slap the shit right out of them&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I did find it interesting that the reporter while apparently a bit to the left, allowed Mr. Perry to complete his thought and even made a reasonable observation about the ubiquitous nature of video \/ information flow and how it can work to our detriment.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand if our media spent nearly as much time trying to spin this minor event as exactly what it was.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>1.&nbsp;<i>Time honored tradition since the first proto-human bashed a rivals skull in with a rock.&nbsp;<\/i><i>2. A minor mistake by a bunch of amped up young men.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then the world would have said &#8220;meh&#8230; so what&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/109162\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to MRCTV and Breitbart.com for the link.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself wondering how much of the lefts response is plain old penis envy?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d personally characterize a lot of the left (male or female) as being dickless.<\/p>\n<p>I can still proudly write my name in the snow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How about you?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very scary, I agree with Rick Perry. Did my apocalypse pager go off and I missed it? Nope! No page and the batteries are good. Which is to say, that like a broken clock that&#8217;s right twice a day&#8230; &nbsp;Even ultra conservative candidates that I mostly disagree with can make a reasonable point. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/01\/15\/i-cant-believe-it-i-actually-agree-with-rick-perry-about-something\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe it&#8230; I actually agree with Rick Perry about something.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,34,10,14,19],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marines","category-men","category-military","category-modern-problems","category-politics","category-things-that-make-you-say-hum","tag-male"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}