{"id":738,"date":"2005-01-31T23:39:55","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T03:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2005-01-31T23:39:55","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T03:39:55","slug":"colbert-on-the-iraqi-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Colbert on the Iraqi Elections."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"colbert.gif\" id=\"image737\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/colbert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The following is from <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/thedailyshowwithjonstewart\/index.jhtml\"><em>The Daily Show&#8217;s<\/em><\/a> Stephen Colbert on the Iraqi Election:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A high turnout less than fifty dead, doesn&#8217;t get any better than this&#8230;<br \/>\nThe birth of a Democracy is like any birth, it&#8217;s not for the faint-hearted. You can&#8217;t let the panic and the hot stink of fear that fills the room distract you from the goal&#8230; pushing that thing out.<br \/>\nLady Liberty may curse at you and tell you that she hates you and her          eyes may go wild like a mindless animal but you stay the course. And when          the still soft head of representative government emerges from the draconian          stained voting both like some wet hairless rat you&#8217;ll be able to look          at it and say &#8220;That&#8217;s mine, I maid that.&#8221; Even if it clearly looks Asian          because at that point you can convince yourself of anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from The Daily Show&#8217;s Stephen Colbert on the Iraqi Election: A high turnout less than fifty dead, doesn&#8217;t get any better than this&#8230; The birth of a Democracy is like any birth, it&#8217;s not for the faint-hearted. You can&#8217;t let the panic and the hot stink of fear that fills the room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-bU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}