{"id":1183,"date":"2006-06-07T16:31:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/06\/07\/keep-on-al-gore\/"},"modified":"2006-06-09T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T16:41:27","slug":"keep-on-al-gore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/06\/keep-on-al-gore\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep on, Al Gore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just sent a message to Al Gore, who&#8217;s been attacked in his efforts to raise awareness on the issue of global warming.  So far, right-wing talkers have compared him to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, and one even likened Gore&#8217;s pursuit of solutions to global warming to Adolf Hitler&#8217;s pursuit of genocide. <\/p>\n<p>Tell him thank you and that he should keep fighting here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/keepfighting\">http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/keepfighting<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wanted to take a minute to tell you thank you, and to keep fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for demonstrating the courage and moral clarity that you have in the face of the vicious right-wing attacks. Global warming is not and should not be a political issue, and I stand behind you against those who use rhetoric to try to hide the truth.<\/p>\n<p>My personal comments added:<\/p>\n<p>As long as there are people like you working for the things that really matter, we still have a chance. Thank you for doing all in your power to awaken us to our own self-destructiveness and to set in motion the forces needed to address our global crisis. On a more personal note, to see you follow your heart and your calling makes me very proud and happy. It gives me hope &#8211; you&#8217;re my hero. <\/p>\n<p><em>Non Illegitimi Carborundum<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just sent a message to Al Gore, who&#8217;s been attacked in his efforts to raise awareness on the issue of global warming. So far, right-wing talkers have compared him to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, and one even likened Gore&#8217;s pursuit of solutions to global warming to Adolf Hitler&#8217;s pursuit of genocide. Tell him thank you and that he should keep fighting here: http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/keepfighting I wanted to take a minute to tell you thank you, and to keep fighting&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/06\/keep-on-al-gore\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,12,3,8],"tags":[627,659,2230,2231,2232,2233],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-nation","category-culture","category-technology-and-science","category-politics","category-religion","tag-aliennation","tag-global-warming","tag-gore","tag-non-illegitimi-carborundum","tag-rhetoric","tag-right-wing-attacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}