{"id":2528,"date":"2010-07-19T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2013-07-01T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:02:47","slug":"you-dont-have-to-be-a-hapless-liberal-to-write-a-catchy-song-about-a-north-dakota-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t have to be a hapless liberal to write a catchy song about a North Dakota politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/B4mezUUlSAI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/B4mezUUlSAI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/funny_gop_video01.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"338\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAs an animator I like subtleties such as the one above. Notice how Earl&#8217;s path follows the outline of North Dakota&#8217;s border rather than crossing it! Interested parties may remember that you couldn&#8217;t find Earl Pomeroy <b>anywhere near<\/b> his constituents last year during the government health care takeover debate. Priceless.<\/p>\n<p>The big deal about this video is actually the statistic that Earl Pomeroy, he of such &#8220;clout and seniority&#8221; on our behalf back in Washington, got only <b>FOURTEEN<\/b> contributors from North Dakota last reporting period. A more telling statistic I cannot find. I expect this sort of thing to hold true at the polls too, even if ACORN can get a bunch of college kids to vote twice (at home and at school) in November. Oh, and the video says that one of those fourteen was a Pomeroy.<\/p>\n<p>I guess one doesn&#8217;t have to be a hapless liberal to write a catchy song about a North Dakota politician! Unlike the one targeting Dave Weiler, however, this one is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an animator I like subtleties such as the one above. Notice how Earl&#8217;s path follows the outline of North Dakota&#8217;s border rather than crossing it! Interested parties may remember that you couldn&#8217;t find Earl Pomeroy anywhere near his constituents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2528\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funnyunusual","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}