{"id":15169,"date":"2012-08-21T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15169"},"modified":"2012-08-21T20:45:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T00:45:19","slug":"he-might-just-fit-right-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15169","title":{"rendered":"He Might Just Fit Right In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk radio is abuzz today with the story of Representative <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Todd Akin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Todd_Akin\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Akin<\/a> and his totally stupid remarks about rape. Representative Akin is running for the Senate seat currently held by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Claire McCaskill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mccaskill.senate.gov\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Claire McCaskill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/akin-we-are-going-to-continue-with-this-race-for-the-us-senate\/article\/2505506#.UDQEeKDLmE8\"> Washington Examiner<\/a> reported today that despite pressure to drop out of the race, Representative Akin will continue his run for the Senate. I personally think he should drop out, but on the other hand, he hasn&#8217;t said anything dumber than has been said in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/topics\/united-states-congress\" rel=\"economist\" target=\"_blank\">Congress<\/a> before.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember this <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> video of Representative <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hank Johnson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hank_Johnson\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Hank Johnson<\/a> questioning the military on their plans to increase troop strength in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Guam\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=13.4444444444,144.736666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=13.4444444444,144.736666667%20%28Guam%29&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Guam<\/a>?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zNZczIgVXjg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Double standard, anyone?<\/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\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=9462861d-806a-4732-ba7c-caf206db3df8\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk radio is abuzz today with the story of Representative Todd Akin and his totally stupid remarks about rape. Representative Akin is running for the Senate seat currently held by Claire McCaskill. The Washington Examiner reported today that despite pressure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15169\">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":[1541,3783,3784,2094,365,711,3782,999],"class_list":["post-15169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-claire-mccaskill","tag-guam","tag-hank-johnson","tag-missouri","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-todd-akin","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15169","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=15169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15175,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15169\/revisions\/15175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}