{"id":5269,"date":"2010-12-14T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T09:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/14\/none-dare-call-it-treason\/"},"modified":"2010-12-14T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T09:30:19","slug":"none-dare-call-it-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/14\/none-dare-call-it-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"None Dare Call It Treason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, the most sensible commentary on the Southern organizations celebrating the 150th anniversary of secession comes from the Daily Show. Specifically, Larry Wilmore:<\/p>\n<table style='font:11px arial; color:#333; background-color:#f5f5f5' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='360' height='353'>\n<tbody>\n<tr style='background-color:#e5e5e5' valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com'>The Daily Show With Jon Stewart<\/a><\/td>\n<td style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align:right; font-weight:bold;'>Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p \/ 10c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style='height:14px;' valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'<a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-december-9-2010\/the-south-s-secession-commemoration'>The South&#8217;s Secession Commemoration<a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style='height:14px; background-color:#353535' valign='middle'>\n<td colspan='2' style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; width:360px; overflow:hidden; text-align:right'><a target='_blank' style='color:#96deff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/'>www.thedailyshow.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><embed style='display:block' src='http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:368116' width='360' height='301' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'><\/embed><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style='height:18px;' valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'>\n<table style='margin:0px; text-align:center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%' height='100%'>\n<tr valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/'>Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\n<td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/'>Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog&lt;\/a><\/td>\n<td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow'>The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This whole business makes me think the British have the right idea regarding the commemoration of treason. We should have an annual Jefferson Davis day, but along the lines of Guy Fawkes day, not a fancy-dress ball for neo-confederates. If we&#8217;d spent the last century and a half burning them in effigy, maybe we wouldn&#8217;t have to suffer people with confederate flag decals on their trucks questioning the patriotism of New Yorkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, the most sensible commentary on the Southern organizations celebrating the 150th anniversary of secession comes from the Daily Show. Specifically, Larry Wilmore: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p \/ 10c The Daily Show on Facebook This whole business makes me think the British have the right idea regarding the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/14\/none-dare-call-it-treason\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">None Dare Call It Treason<\/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":[28,37,75,38,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-pop_culture","category-society","category-television","category-war","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","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=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}