{"id":31007,"date":"2020-10-25T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31007"},"modified":"2020-10-25T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:37:36","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/25\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/em> analyst, or perhaps just demented old man, Lou Dobbs:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lou Dobbs is telling South Carolina residents not to vote for Lindsey Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vQ67BZZN6P\">pic.twitter.com\/vQ67BZZN6P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonSCampbell\/status\/1319749236251070466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This after Senator Graham (R-SC) successfully rushed through the nomination of Judge Barrett to <strong>SCOTUS<\/strong> through the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s stunning, but not surprising, that Dobbs would be calling for the second-best Trump <em>lickspittle<\/em> in the land to be oustered, even at the expense of losing the Senate. After all, you can&#8217;t move up the Republican ladder of prestige and power without getting rid of a denizen that&#8217;s another rung up.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, that&#8217;s because <em>merit<\/em>, or <em>competency<\/em> if you prefer, has no importance in such a system. Only that slippery quantity, loyalty, is the metric. You can only move up the ladder by removing someone ahead of you.<\/p>\n<p>Dobbs looks to enhance this prestige. He looks around. He spies that guy who might be responsible for making <em>Obamagate<\/em> &#8211; a famously undefined fantasy &#8211; into a &#8220;real boy!&#8221;, and denigrates him for, well, not breaking the law and betraying basic honor.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s your basic Trumpian cult follower. All that&#8217;s important to Dobbs is clinging to Trump&#8217;s shin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News analyst, or perhaps just demented old man, Lou Dobbs: Lou Dobbs is telling South Carolina residents not to vote for Lindsey Graham pic.twitter.com\/vQ67BZZN6P &mdash; Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) October 23, 2020 This after Senator Graham (R-SC) successfully rushed through the nomination of Judge Barrett to SCOTUS through the Judiciary \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/25\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-8\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31008,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007\/revisions\/31008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}