{"id":7128,"date":"2009-05-07T16:45:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T23:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2009-05-08T02:37:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T09:37:53","slug":"lindsey-graham-if-were-going-to-let-the-bloggers-run-the-country-its-best-days-are-behind-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=7128","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham: ‘If we’re going to let the bloggers run the country, [its] best days are behind us’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)<\/a>: “My hope is that our Democratic colleagues – if you start listening to the bloggers – if we’re going to let the bloggers run the country, then the country’s best days are behind us.”<\/p>\n

Out of touch much, Senator? We suspect if the bloggers actually did run the country, we’d be much better off (if only because you’d be out of office.)<\/p>\n

But perhaps Graham is confusing responsible, educated “bloggers” with the right-wingnut “bloggers” he’s likely more familiar with. For example, here’s the very popular (on the Right) Dijon deranged<\/a> wingnut “Gateway Pundit,” Jim Hoft<\/a>, with his insightful perspective on the important news of the day yesterday:<\/p>\n

They’re just two ordinary metrosexual guys going out for a burger … Obama and Biden, two ordinary guys, go out for a sandwich<\/a> and Obama asks for Dijon mustard at Joe’s Hell Burger. …I hear it’s delish with arugula lettuce. Yum-Yum.<\/div>\n

If that’s who you meant by “bloggers,” Senator — and we’re ashamed that Hoft represents our former hometown of St. Louis, MO — we might agree with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): “My hope is that our Democratic colleagues – if you start listening to the bloggers – if we’re going to let the bloggers run the country, then the country’s best days are behind us.” Out of touch much, Senator? We suspect if the bloggers actually did run the country, we’d be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,417],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lamar-smith","category-lindsey-graham"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}