{"id":1182,"date":"2007-01-21T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2007-01-21T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T07:43:00","slug":"dinesh-dsouza-we-need-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/dinesh-dsouza-we-need-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, we need to talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dude, your abhorrent opinions \u2014 particularly the ones highlighted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2007\/01\/20\/d_souza\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, regarding the ways the left&#8217;s actions incited Sept. 11 \u2014 are laughable on their own, but if you can&#8217;t even BS your way through a Salon interview without saying something so stupid that it makes you look like the ass you must be, then we&#8217;re all gonna laugh at you.<\/p>\n<p>To wit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America is the font of atheism in the world, the head of the snake, the head of the unbelievers and so on. So it&#8217;s impossible to deny that this idea that America is an atheist and a pagan society that is inflicting its values on the world is an important element of their critique.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, Dinesh? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitzer.edu\/academics\/faculty\/zuckerman\/atheism.html\" target=\"_blank\">Follow the light and come back to reality<\/a>*. And try again**. <\/p>\n<p>*<font size=\"1\">Link ripped from a Salon letter-writer, who latched onto the same bit of nonsense that I did, but who came equipped with the numbers to back it up. Kudos, ffish. <\/font><\/p>\n<p>**<font size=\"1\">There are so many other outlandishly ridiculous things D&#8217;Souza says in the interview that I&#8217;ve neither the time nor the patience to debunk. Seriously, suggesting that we cinch the &#8220;moral&#8221; belt on the country so the Islamists won&#8217;t blow us up? For shame.  <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dude, your abhorrent opinions \u2014 particularly the ones highlighted here, regarding the ways the left&#8217;s actions incited Sept. 11 \u2014 are laughable on their own, but if you can&#8217;t even BS your way through a Salon interview without saying something so stupid that it makes you look like the ass you must be, then we&#8217;re all gonna laugh at you. To wit: America is the font of atheism in the world, the head of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-j4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}