{"id":596,"date":"2009-03-04T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T12:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-03-04T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T12:43:44","slug":"this_is_troubling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"This Is Troubling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0309\/19596.html\">Politico<\/a>&nbsp;has an three-page article detailing the Obama administrations plan to marginalize Rush Limbaugh.&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t happen to like Rush Limbaugh, that&#8217;s no big deal, but there are a few aspects of this that need to be investigated.&nbsp; I&#8217;m posting this even though I feel Rush Limbaugh is more than capable of taking care of himself (as Benjamin Franklin once said, &#8220;Never argue with a man who buys his ink by the barrel &#8230;&#8221;).&nbsp; Rush does not buy ink by the barrel (although he may&#8211;he publishes a magazine), but is well-respected by a large number of Americans who vote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First, Rush Limbaugh is a private citizen.&nbsp; What kind of administration is in the business of silencing the voices of private citizens?&nbsp; A democracy should be open to all voices.<\/p>\n<p>Second, how many months will it be before some form of the fairness doctrine is put in force?<\/p>\n<p>Third, why is this administration so afraid of opposing voices?&nbsp;&nbsp; Do you remember what they did to &#8216;Joe the Plumber&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>This is not just a clash of prominent personalities&#8211;one in government and one in the private sector&#8211;the is an administration using the power and force of government against a private citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico&nbsp;has an three-page article detailing the Obama administrations plan to marginalize Rush Limbaugh.&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t happen to like Rush Limbaugh, that&#8217;s no big deal, but there are a few aspects of this that need to be investigated.&nbsp; I&#8217;m posting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=596\">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-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}