{"id":13569,"date":"2008-11-12T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T21:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/11\/12\/truly-i-do-not-understand.html"},"modified":"2008-11-12T14:36:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T21:36:59","slug":"truly_i_do_not_understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/truly_i_do_not_understand.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Truly, I do not understand.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For once Keith Olbermann is softer-spoken about an issue than I am, turning his sarcastic bluster into rhetorically bewildered lack of understanding as to why people voted for Prop. 8.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1HpTBF6EfxY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me? It&#8217;s still tough for me to <em>speak <\/em>of the matter in anything less than angry tones, even if I can write about it at a somewhat even keel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For once Keith Olbermann is softer-spoken about an issue than I am, turning his sarcastic bluster into rhetorically bewildered lack of understanding as to why people voted for Prop. 8&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[54,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008","category-gay-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10084,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/patch_managemen.html","url_meta":{"origin":13569,"position":0},"title":"Patch Management and the bottom line","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Sep-06 9:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bruce Schneier asks (rhetorically) why is it that Micro$oft can only bring itself to issue patches once a month to clean up security holes in its operating system, browser, and...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16560,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/on-the-supreme-courts-citizens-united-decision.html","url_meta":{"origin":13569,"position":1},"title":"On the Supreme Court&#8217;s Citizens United decision","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Jan-10 10:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"Fairly apocalyptic words from Keith Olbermann ... ... but it's hard to substantively argue against it. 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