{"id":32539,"date":"2013-02-21T22:58:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T05:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/the-man-who-wouldnt-be-emperor.html"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:46:37","slug":"the-man-who-wouldnt-be-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/the-man-who-wouldnt-be-emperor.html","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Would(n&#39;t) Be Emperor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Sound-bite madness grips the right-wing punditry. Again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140'>George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did your favorite news source say that Obama wants to be emperor? Might be time to shop around for better reporting.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\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                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/timpanogos.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/obama-not-emperor-from-joe-leavell.jpg?fit%3D400%252C400&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/timpanogos.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/18\/obama-h8rs-complain-obamas-not-emperor\/'>Obama H8rs complain, &#8220;Obama&#8217;s not emperor!&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Can&#8217;t make this stuff up as fast as the unthinking anti-Obama folks can dish it out. Their criticisms often vaporize at the slightest investigation, though. Why not talk serious policy? They won&#8217;&#8230;&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/V8PYMh2wRwa' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound-bite madness grips the right-wing punditry. Again. Reshared post from +George Wiman Did your favorite news source say that Obama wants to be emperor? Might be time to shop around for better reporting.\u00a0 Obama H8rs complain, &#8220;Obama&#8217;s not emperor!&#8221; Can&#8217;t make this stuff up as fast as the unthinking anti-Obama folks can dish it out. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/the-man-who-wouldnt-be-emperor.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Man Who Would(n&#39;t) Be Emperor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48139,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/to-the-emperor-with-lobe.html","url_meta":{"origin":32539,"position":0},"title":"To the Emperor, with Lobe","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 16-Nov-14 7:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Xian tomb, and its terra cotta warriors, are truly astonishing. 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