{"id":2956,"date":"2008-09-21T08:26:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T08:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/21\/the-liberal-media-hastens-the\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T08:26:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T08:26:02","slug":"the-liberal-media-hastens-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/21\/the-liberal-media-hastens-the\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal Media Hasten the Red Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

… at least, that’s the only reason I can think of for ABC News to run a story on the effects of the financial crisis<\/a> containing the following:<\/p>\n

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“A lot of those people will have to sell their homes, they’re going to cut back on the private jets and the vacations. They may even have to take their kids out of private school,” said [Robert] Frank [of the Wall Street Journal]. “It’s a total reworking of their lifestyle.” <\/p>\n

He added that it’s going to be no easy task. <\/p>\n

“It’s going to be very hard psychologically for these people,” Frank said. “I talked to one guy who had to give up his private jet recently. And he said of all the trials in his life, giving that up was the hardest thing he’s ever done.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I mean, seriously, what am I supposed to think about this? They’re either trying to get the masses to rise up in bloody revolution, or trying to put Stephen Colbert out of a job.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, if you’d like a good run-down of what went wrong in the finanacial system from someone on the inside, you could do much worse than this op-ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… at least, that’s the only reason I can think of for ABC News to run a story on the effects of the financial crisis containing the following: “A lot of those people will have to sell their homes, they’re going to cut back on the private jets and the vacations. They may even have… Continue reading The Liberal Media Hasten the Red Revolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_issues","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}