{"id":1041,"date":"2009-11-24T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T14:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2009-11-24T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T14:38:25","slug":"diplomatic-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/diplomatic-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The press called Ronald Reagan the &#8220;Teflon President&#8221; because nothing they threw at him would stick.<\/p>\n<p>Obama might be the same way; we&#8217;ll never know unless the mainstream media actually *does* throw something at him.  Maybe I missed the week where he was granted immunity.  No, that&#8217;s &#8220;Top Chef&#8221;.  Never mind.<\/p>\n<p>Between the multiple (and <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/2009\/11\/23\/breaking-san-diego-acorn-document-dump-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing<\/a>) ACORN scandals, the missing birth certificate, the apology tour, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/24\/hiding-evidence-of-global-cooling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Climate<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jamesdelingpole\/100017393\/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gate<\/a>, questionable bailouts, trillion-dollar health-care grabs, ostentatious elitism, and so much more, one has to wonder why the media is stockpiling their ammo.  <\/p>\n<p>They certainly shot first, asked questions later when Bush was President.  (Insert Dick Cheney joke here&#8211; you know you&#8217;re dying to.)<\/p>\n<p>But can you imagine Obama having the chutzpah to declare, &#8220;Mr. Gorbachev&#8211; tear down this wall!&#8221; and have anyone take him seriously?<\/p>\n<p>Me, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The press called Ronald Reagan the &#8220;Teflon President&#8221; because nothing they threw at him would stick. Obama might be the same way; we&#8217;ll never know unless the mainstream media actually *does* throw something at him. Maybe I missed the week where he was granted immunity. No, that&#8217;s &#8220;Top Chef&#8221;. Never mind. Between the multiple (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}