{"id":1267,"date":"2009-10-14T21:18:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T21:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2009-10-14T21:18:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T21:18:46","slug":"the_price_of_speaking_honestly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"The Price Of Speaking Honestly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/024707.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;posted a story tonight that is truly sad.&nbsp; Rush Limbaugh has withdrawn as part of a group&nbsp;of investors that was trying to buy to NFL football team the St. Louis Rams.&nbsp; It really doesn&#8217;t matter to me who owns the team.&nbsp; What saddens me is the false accusations against him that have caused the controversy which resulted in his being forced to withdraw from the group buying the team.<\/p>\n<p>Free speech is a basic right of&nbsp;the U. S. Constitution.&nbsp; There is no right written into the Constitution that says we have the freedom not to be offended.&nbsp; If you are looking for an excuse to be offended by someone else&#8217;s free speech, you will probably never have to look very far.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I think it is truly sad that a man who has worked as hard to be a success as Rush Limbaugh has can be prevented from doing something that he would genuinely enjoy doing by people who do not share his opinions making false accusations against him. &nbsp; Rush Limbaugh is not a racist.&nbsp; Also, anyone who has ever listened to Rush Limbaugh knows that he thoroughly enjoys football and is quite knowledgeable about the sport.&nbsp; It is truly a shame that Rush Limbaugh will be denied one of his dreams by people who simply cannot stand to see someone who disagrees with them succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at Power Line&nbsp;posted a story tonight that is truly sad.&nbsp; Rush Limbaugh has withdrawn as part of a group&nbsp;of investors that was trying to buy to NFL football team the St. Louis Rams.&nbsp; It really doesn&#8217;t matter to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1267\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}