{"id":3170,"date":"2016-02-13T21:58:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T02:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2016-02-14T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T15:19:24","slug":"memo-from-the-propaganda-underground-ctd-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"Memo from the Propaganda Underground, <i>ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what they&#8217;re thinking about the death of Justice Scalia <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SbcVoices\/~3\/q2jz8yCMyiU\/\" target=\"_blank\">out in Baptistland<\/a>, populated by low-information, poorly-educated voters who believe every malicious lie the Propaganda Underground feeds them:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>There has been a razor-thin balance on the court with <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">four conservatives<\/span>, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">four hard-core liberals<\/span>, and a swing vote. <\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>Now, one of two things is going to happen.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Barack Obama,  the most <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">pro-death, abortion loving, constitution-averse<\/span> president I\u2019ve seen will appoint a replacement for the most conservative voice on the court.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>The appointment will be bumped till after the election and the stakes of the 2016 vote will go up dramatically.<\/ol>\n<p>It would be hard to over-estimate the significance if this sad moment.<\/p>\n<p>If Obama, Hillary,  or Sanders appoint the next justice our courts will turn left so dramatically we will get cricks in our necks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice: &#8220;four conservatives, four <i>hard-core<\/i> liberals;&#8221; &#8220;pro-death, abortion-loving, constitution-averse.&#8221;  This moron isn&#8217;t talking about President Obama; he&#8217;s talking about the Gollum-like creature invented and marketed by <i>World Net Daily<\/i> &#8212; <i>and he has no idea that he&#8217;s talking about the literary invention of people who are preying upon his ignorance<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all will probably not be surprised to learn that Albert The Pious has weighed in, too.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Justice Scalia was committed to interpreting the US Constitution as if words &amp; intention of the framers matter. He will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/698639229518270465\">February 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The unhappy truth is that Scalia had clearly been in decline for the past several years; his decisions lost their force, their insight, and too often degenerated into mere raving.  If he&#8217;d had the sense to go a decade ago he would have remained controversial, but respected; now, he will probably be remembered for the incoherent crankiness of the past half-dozen years rather than the forceful arguments of years ago.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: &#0160; <\/b>Don&#8217;t miss the comments; the crowd at SBCVoices is thinking that Ted Cruz &#8212; a Dominionist who wants us to live under Old Testament law &#8212; might be a good choice for the Supreme Court if he isn&#8217;t elected president.  Seriously: These idiots don&#8217;t know a goddamn thing about their country.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE UPDATE: &#0160; <\/b>Another faction is thinking Ben Carson would be a good choice for the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what they&#8217;re thinking about the death of Justice Scalia out in Baptistland, populated by low-information, poorly-educated voters who believe every malicious lie the Propaganda Underground feeds them: [ &#8230; ] There has been a razor-thin balance on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3170\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}