{"id":221,"date":"2008-09-08T18:13:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T22:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-09-08T18:13:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T22:13:38","slug":"lou_dobbs_the_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2008\/09\/lou_dobbs_the_i\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Dobbs, the &#8220;Independent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is hilarious. Lou Dobbs paints himself &#8220;independent&#8221; only because not even the most rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth conservatives have a place for him. He&#8217;s so far to the Right that he qualifies as &#8220;infra-&#8221; or &#8220;ultra-&#8221; something, yet to be defined but definitely over the far reaches of the Right&#8217;s ledge.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, he shouldn&#8217;t appropriate the &#8220;independent&#8221; adjective all for himself. I&#8217;m almost certain that most &#8220;independents&#8221; do not share his views, or come even close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loudobbs.tv.cnn.com\/\">Lou Dobbs: Issues, TV, Radio, and Books &#8211; CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is hilarious. Lou Dobbs paints himself &#8220;independent&#8221; only because not even the most rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth conservatives have a place for him. He&#8217;s so far to the Right that he qualifies as &#8220;infra-&#8221; or &#8220;ultra-&#8221; something, yet to be defined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2008\/09\/lou_dobbs_the_i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}