{"id":354,"date":"2005-06-25T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2005-06-25T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T16:38:51","slug":"george-pataki-curator-i-know-the-first-show-at-the-freedom-center-can-be-about-censorship-in-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"George Pataki, Curator: I know, the first show at the Freedom Center can be about censorship in the arts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to make a rational comment about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/25\/nyregion\/25rebuild.html?ex=1277352000&amp;en=feecbc648d8a45af&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">this<\/a>? Is it fair to force me to give up a Saturday morning to explain how absurd this is? That I need to point out that the specious politicking that purports to draw a connection between criticizing torture at Abu Ghraib is somehow to equivalent to dishonoring 9\/11 victims is, <em>ironically<\/em>, exactly what those casting aspersions are decrying? I mean, did Karl Rove write the fucking playbook on this? Pataki got the latest edition &#8216;How to be a Republican Prick who Pisses All Over What it Means to Be American and Win Public Office&#8217;? How many times will some red state asshole get to come to town, bathe himself in the blood of dead New Yorkers and point fingers, claiming a lack of patriotism? Can&#8217;t we stop this? Oh, wait, we believe in freedom of speech, the Constitution, and thus Pataki&#8217;s right to be an unmitigated, incompetent, insensitive, useless coat holder. Enjoy it George. And don&#8217;t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to make a rational comment about this? Is it fair to force me to give up a Saturday morning to explain how absurd this is? That I need to point out that the specious politicking that purports to draw a connection between criticizing torture at Abu Ghraib is somehow to equivalent to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}