{"id":7543,"date":"2012-07-10T20:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T03:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7543"},"modified":"2012-07-11T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T08:01:10","slug":"the-battle-hymn-of-the-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7543","title":{"rendered":"The Battle Hymn Of The Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reince Priebus, the chair of the Republican National Committee, appeared on Fox News Sunday this weekend and delivered an oratory that can only be described as a nightmarish rendition of some perverse patriotic anthem from hell. I call it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign2012\/battle-hymn-republican.jpg\" alt=\"Battle Hymn of the Republican\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>These sentiments would be bad enough if they erupted from some fringy, Apocalyptic, Tea Party zealot, but when someone as establishment as the chairman of the RNC spews this sort of patriopathic gibberish, there is something very troubling afoot.<\/p>\n<p>To assert that liberty, freedom, and even America, are at risk of coming to an end because of a popularly elected Democratic president is not only symptomatic of acute paranoia, it suggests a total absence of faith in the strength and endurance of America. Do these miscreants really believe that our nation is so weak that it will crumble into dust if their candidate is not victorious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reince Priebus, the chair of the Republican National Committee, appeared on Fox News Sunday this weekend and delivered an oratory that can only be described as a nightmarish rendition of some perverse patriotic anthem from hell. I call it&#8230; These sentiments would be bad enough if they erupted from some fringy, Apocalyptic, Tea Party zealot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1XF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1281,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1281","url_meta":{"origin":7543,"position":0},"title":"Now Republicans Are An Oppressed Minority","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/27\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This doesn't need much accompanying commentary: Per Rush Limbaugh: \"If ever a civil rights movement was needed in America, it is for the Republican Party. 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