{"id":4169,"date":"2013-05-01T12:12:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2013-05-01T12:12:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:12:29","slug":"quote-of-the-day-noam-chomsky-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/quote-of-the-day-noam-chomsky-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Noam Chomsky Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. The one thing that did surprise me is his attack on civil liberties. They go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don\u2019t seem easy to explain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2013\/04\/30\/chomsky-denounces-obama\/\">Thus saith uber-leftist Noam Chomsky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Academic Chomsky is getting a lesson in RealPolitik, where the maxim\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/index.php?s=scratch+a+liberal\">\u201cScratch a liberal and you\u2019ll find a fascist&#8221;<\/a> is the norm, and not the exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. The one thing that did surprise me is his attack on civil liberties. They go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don\u2019t seem easy to explain.\u201d &#8212; Thus saith uber-leftist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,19],"tags":[140,251,262,414,480,486,621,638,639,839],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-incompetent","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-liberal","tag-politics","tag-quote","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-15f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}