{"id":26874,"date":"2012-03-06T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T03:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/06\/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun-unfortunately.html"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:24:29","slug":"there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun-unfortunately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/06\/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun-unfortunately.html","title":{"rendered":"There is nothing new under the sun (unfortunately)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly enough, Judge Cebull is not the first person to get into hot water with this joke. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfltimes.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5243&amp;Itemid=1\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/www.sfltimes.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5243&amp;Itemid=1<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For what it&#39;s worth, that page (and other instances of the joke which can be found, including some pre-dating the insertion of the president&#39;s name), have the same &quot;a bit touching&quot; text in front of them, so that part, at least, wasn&#39;t the judge&#39;s addition.   #ddtb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102449423618024963809'>David Kurtz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Fassets_c%2F2012%2F03%2Fobama-cebull-cropped-proto-custom_28.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/03\/dems_want_hearing_on_federal_judges_racist_obama_e.php?ref=fpnewsfeed'>Dems Want Hearing On Federal Judge\u2019s Racist Obama Email<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee want a hearing examining the conduct of the federal judge in Montana who emailed a racist joke implying that President Barack Obama\u2019s mother had sex with&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly enough, Judge Cebull is not the first person to get into hot water with this joke. For example, http:\/\/www.sfltimes.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5243&amp;Itemid=1 For what it&#39;s worth, that page (and other instances of the joke which can be found, including some pre-dating the insertion of the president&#39;s name), have the same &quot;a bit touching&quot; text in front of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/06\/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun-unfortunately.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There is nothing new under the sun (unfortunately)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,30,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-jokes","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/16\/please_god_tell.html","url_meta":{"origin":26874,"position":0},"title":"Please, God, tell it&#8217;s a punch line","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Oct-02 6:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This sort of thing should be a joke. 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