{"id":19043,"date":"2010-05-10T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19043"},"modified":"2010-05-10T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:50:02","slug":"mark-potok-violated-my-first-amendment-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19043","title":{"rendered":"Mark Potok violated my First Amendment Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he didn&#8217;t really (only the government can violate my rights), but if I did the same thing to him, he&#8217;d accuse me of it. Potok has commented on posts about him here over the years and I&#8217;ve let him have his say &#8211; usually because he  heightens the hilarity with his Godless hyperbole. So the other day I was cruising through his &#8220;Hate Watch&#8221; (mostly looking for my name, because I hate <strong>a lot<\/strong> and I&#8217;m somewhat disappointed I haven&#8217;t been recognized yet). <\/p>\n<p>But anyway, I ran across this REALLY stupid article by Sonia Scherr, one of Potok&#8217;s main bomb throwers, entitled &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/fox-uses-dubious-murder-stats-to-demonize-undocumented-immigrants\/\">Fox Uses Dubious Stats to Demonize Undocumented Immigrants<\/a><\/em>&#8220;. I didn&#8217;t even read it &#8211; the irony of the SPLC charging anyone with using dubious statistics (like calling a PO Box in Romney, WV a hate group) was just too much to bear. So, I left a comment, politely worded, to that effect. I checked this morning and the comment is deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in Hate Watch world, if I had deleted one of Potok&#8217;s comments, I&#8217;d be accused of burning him at the stake and any number of things which would make me out to be a right wing nut job. I won&#8217;t do that to Potok and his fragile ego, though. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sNHCeqnRpMg&#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\/sNHCeqnRpMg&#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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he didn&#8217;t really (only the government can violate my rights), but if I did the &hellip; <a title=\"Mark Potok violated my First Amendment Rights\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19043\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mark Potok violated my First Amendment Rights<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-splc","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}