{"id":17685,"date":"2010-02-25T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17685"},"modified":"2010-02-25T19:02:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:02:56","slug":"taking-issue-with-my-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17685","title":{"rendered":"Taking issue with my side&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am accused of hypocrisy at times, here is a perfect opportunity to take issue with my side, in this case &#8220;Americans For Prosperity.&#8221;  Here is the video, and in case they take it down (not that I expect they will) here is the explanation:<\/p>\n<p><em>When an AFP activist confronts a supporter of Washington&#8217;s health care take over about the poor conditions at Veterans hospitals, he responds by saying Veterans hospitals are not government run, they are &#8220;Pentagon run&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i_rRHqRBXJ0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i_rRHqRBXJ0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the hippie is an idiot.  Unfortunately, AFP is wrong here too.  First off, the discussion was not about &#8220;Veterans hospitals&#8221; it was about WRAMC, which is an Army hospital.  Second, it wasn&#8217;t the medical care that was the issue, it was out-patient housing.<\/p>\n<p>But, to their credit, I responded as much to the AFP person who emailed it to me, and he immediately responded with an apology saying only that he wanted to point out how idiotic the hippie was.  Agreed sir, I hereby award you my daily medal in Hippie Bashing!<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I have done my part in trying to correct them, and will continue to get their mailings, because they do do a good job at highlighting our economic problems and the inability of liberalism to adequately address them.  I just didn&#8217;t approve of the caption which unneccessarily maligns the hard working folks at WRAMC.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: To their credit, they immediately fixed the caption.  If only our lefty friends could correct themselves with such alacrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am accused of hypocrisy at times, here is a perfect opportunity to take issue &hellip; <a title=\"Taking issue with my side&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17685\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taking issue with my side&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}