{"id":13206,"date":"2012-04-12T21:06:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T01:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13206"},"modified":"2012-04-12T21:06:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T01:06:24","slug":"about-that-civility-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13206","title":{"rendered":"About That Civility Thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/maine-democrat-cheney-should-die-saddam\/477766\">Washington Examiner<\/a>\u00a0reported some comments made by a Maine state legislator on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;Cheney deserves same final end he gave Saddam,&#8221; Kruger tweeted, <a href=\"http:\/\/weaselzippers.us\/2012\/04\/12\/maine-democrat-says-dick-cheney-should-be-executed\/\">according to the Maine Wire<\/a>. &#8220;Hope there are cell cams,&#8221; he added, indicating a desire to watch Cheney die.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Today, after local media noticed the comment, Kruger<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/kruger1950\">tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;Twitter is no place for lousy attempts at humor&#8221; along with the hashtag &#8220;#mepolitics,&#8221; in what seems to be an allusion to the Cheney\/Saddam tweet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid I fail to see the humor in any of that. Comments like that deserve to have consequences. I doubt there will be any, but Mr. Kruger was totally out of line.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=4bd4404e-40f8-4028-ab7e-7b713c8ba4ed\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Examiner\u00a0reported some comments made by a Maine state legislator on twitter. The article reports: &#8220;Cheney deserves same final end he gave Saddam,&#8221; Kruger tweeted, according to the Maine Wire. &#8220;Hope there are cell cams,&#8221; he added, indicating a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13206\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2721,2722,2526,146,2720,2561],"class_list":["post-13206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cheney","tag-democratic-rep-chuck-kruger","tag-dick-cheney","tag-maine","tag-the-washington-examiner","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13207,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206\/revisions\/13207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}