{"id":2104,"date":"2006-10-02T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/limbaugh_offers\/"},"modified":"2006-10-02T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T16:31:06","slug":"limbaugh_offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/limbaugh_offers\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh Offers Foley Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\">America&#8217;s Anchorman<\/a>&#8221; on WGOP-AM suggest (&#8220;just thinking aloud&#8221;) that Mark Foley may have been &#8220;set up&#8221; from the get go.  After all, how hard would it be to get to one of these Congressional pages?<br \/>\nThe party of personal responsibility strikes again.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200610020013\">Media Matters<\/a> has a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LIMBAUGH: I&#8217;m just thinking out loud here. What if somebody got to the page and said, you know, we want you to set Foley up. We need to do a little titillating thing here. Keep it and save it and so forth. How would you get a kid to do that? Yeah, who knows? You threaten him or pay him. There&#8217;s any number of ways given the kind of people that we&#8217;re dealing with and talking about here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know the Democrats are bad at coordinating things, but really&#8211;if they were really conspiring to set someone up, would this be the best thing they could come up with?  Text messages to a Florida Congressman?  Yeah, forget our state of war and economic issues, <em>this<\/em> is the fault line which is going to bring a political upheaval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/limbaugh_offers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Limbaugh Offers Foley Conspiracy Theory\"><p>I just heard &#8220;America&#8217;s Anchorman&#8221; on WGOP-AM suggest (&#8220;just thinking aloud&#8221;) that Mark Foley may have been &#8220;set up&#8221; from the get go. After all, how hard would it be to get to one of these Congressional pages? The party of personal responsibility strikes again. UPDATE: Media Matters has a quote: LIMBAUGH: I&#8217;m just thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}