{"id":3192,"date":"2009-02-16T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T23:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2009-02-18T19:38:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:38:07","slug":"how-the-game-is-playedcontinued-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3192","title":{"rendered":"How The Game Is Played&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/2009\/02\/16\/8834\">Jim Burroway makes a good catch<\/a>  I&#8217;d missed when looking at the new anti-gay ad campaign created by Campaign Secrets&#8230;the one that shows an unseen gay sniper putting a family and more specifically their little children in the crosshairs.&nbsp; This one is good&#8230;it really says it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By the way, we also learn that public schools no longer celebrate Father&rsquo;s Day. Wait a minute. That couldn&rsquo;t be because it&rsquo;s celebrated on the third Sunday in June while school&rsquo;s out, could it? Naah, it&rsquo;s a much better story when it&rsquo;s all the gays&rsquo; fault.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dig it.&nbsp; Never mind that Father&#8217;s Day happens after the school year ends&#8230;just remember that the homosexuals have forced schools to stop celebrating Father&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230;this kind of crap may actually fool a lot of people, not all of whom necessarily want someone to feed them pre-fabricated lies about gays they can pass around without taking responsibility for it.&nbsp; Some people will actually hear this and think&#8230;<em>Wow&#8230;the gays took Father&#8217;s Day out of the schools&#8230;<\/em>&nbsp; But you know goddamned well the people who made that ad knew that it was horseshit, and almost certainly so did the folks who bought it.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s a safe bet that its target audience doesn&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s truthful or not.\n<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s your moral crusade right there.&nbsp; There&#8217;s your righteousness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Burroway makes a good catch I&#8217;d missed when looking at the new anti-gay ad campaign created by Campaign Secrets&#8230;the one that shows an unseen gay sniper putting a family and more specifically their little children in the crosshairs.&nbsp; This one is good&#8230;it really says it all&#8230; By the way, we also learn that public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,32,21,20,46,60,6],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bushs-america","tag-hate","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-kultar-kampf","tag-the-noise-machine","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}