{"id":18935,"date":"2013-09-20T17:36:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T21:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18935"},"modified":"2013-09-20T17:40:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T21:40:01","slug":"the-sting-of-friendly-rebuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18935\/the-sting-of-friendly-rebuke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sting of Friendly Rebuke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Second City is far from the first place one would expect to produce a devastating satire of Barack Obama&#8217;s foreign policy. The Chicago improv troupe, which &#8212; along with the Groundlings in Los Angeles &#8212; is one of two major feeder programs for <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>, is part of an artistic community whose political sensibilities overwhelmingly incline towards the president. Moreover, they&#8217;re located right in his back yard.<\/p>\n<p>The video below, however, &#8212; produced back when it still looked like the president would pursue an inept war with Syria rather than the inept peace we have now &#8212; is a brilliantly pointed takedown of Obama and his apostles &#8212; and also of the entire political sensibility they represent. That it is clearly done through the clenched teeth of sympathists only makes it all the more enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z-sdO6pwVHQ\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z-sdO6pwVHQ\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second City is far from the first place one would expect to produce a devastating satire of Barack Obama&#8217;s foreign policy. The Chicago improv troupe, which &#8212; along with the Groundlings in Los Angeles &#8212; is one of two major feeder programs for Saturday Night Live, is part of an artistic community whose political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,117,2414],"class_list":["post-18935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-satire","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18935"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18941,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935\/revisions\/18941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}