{"id":6861,"date":"2010-09-02T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2010-09-02T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T21:58:09","slug":"wait-so-the-discovery-channel-gunman-wasnt-a-tea-partier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6861\/wait-so-the-discovery-channel-gunman-wasnt-a-tea-partier\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait… So the Discovery Channel Gunman Wasn’t a Tea Partier?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine the excitement at MSNBC studios when word broke yesterday of a gunman threatening to detonate bombs and shoot people at the Discovery Channel studios in the Washington, D.C. area.\u00a0 Surely, the violent nature of the vicious Tea Party was finally manifesting itself!\u00a0 For months, MSNBC’s primetime lunatic lineup of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have ranted like Jack Nicholson’s character<\/a> in The Shining<\/em> falsely assuring us of the violent undercurrents within the Tea Party movement.<\/p>\n

Quoting Thomas Jefferson?\u00a0 Racism!\u00a0 A rally in Washington, D.C.?\u00a0 Inciting violence!<\/p>\n

So imagine their thermonuclear reaction had yesterday’s Discovery Channel gunman in fact been a Tea Partier.\u00a0 Instead, it turned out<\/a> to be a dimestore Unabomber imitation who called babies “filthy human children” and drafted a manifesto remarkably similar to Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance<\/em>.\u00a0 Notably, he also reportedly made it a habit to aggressively antagonize<\/a> peaceful anti-abortion demonstrators.\u00a0 We won’t hold our breath awaiting MSNBC’s inquiry into the violent methods<\/a> of the militant environmentalist movement.\u00a0 Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people behaving as well as a church picnic will surely continue to elicit pyrotechnics of paranoia from the MSNBC gang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine the excitement at MSNBC studios when word broke yesterday of a gunman threatening to detonate bombs and shoot people at the Discovery Channel studios in the Washington, D.C. area.\u00a0 Surely, the violent nature of the vicious Tea Party was finally manifesting itself!\u00a0 For months, MSNBC’s primetime lunatic lineup of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1785,1787,1788,97,1786,28],"class_list":["post-6861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-discovery-channel","tag-maddow","tag-matthews","tag-msnbc","tag-olbermann","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}