{"id":1303,"date":"2015-08-06T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/08\/why-so-many-liberals-love-the-beatles.html"},"modified":"2015-08-06T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T19:56:00","slug":"why-so-many-liberals-love-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/08\/why-so-many-liberals-love-the-beatles.html","title":{"rendered":"Why so many liberals love the Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div>Now we know!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-5SPfJGU_xxA\/VcPyfP8txJI\/AAAAAAAAGXw\/eq4Mz0VNcGk\/s1600\/beatles%20for%20sale%20cover.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-5SPfJGU_xxA\/VcPyfP8txJI\/AAAAAAAAGXw\/eq4Mz0VNcGk\/s320\/beatles%20for%20sale%20cover.png\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/04\/us\/politics\/planned-parenthood-leader-defends-group-as-senate-blocks-bill-to-end-Its-funding.html?_r=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">it\u2019s a sad and frightening spectacle<\/a>. \u00a0You\u2019d think no matter how the evidence was obtained, the outrage and horrifyingly repulsive and sickening display of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2015\/08\/planned-parenthood-video\/400472\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">what goes on behind Planned Parenthood doors<\/a> would have turned society upside down. \u00a0I don\u2019t expect people born and baptized in the pool of narcissism and hedonism to turn on a dime and renounce abortion. But I thought the overall response would be immediate disgust, and the demands to punish PP for such a grave assault on the dignity of the human being. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div>But no. \u00a0Far from it. \u00a0It\u2019s been defend, defend, and defend. \u00a0And as can be expected, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/08\/05\/planned-parenthood-democrats-baby-column\/31101983\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">liberal branch of American politics<\/a> is the primary defender of such callous and deliberate disregard for human life that one has to reach through the wire fences of Auschwitz to find a similar example. \u00a0Of course not just the Democrats. \u00a0As can always be expected, the proper number of <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/danieldavis\/2015\/08\/04\/mark-kirk-republican-protector-of-planned-parenthood-n2034632\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Republicans <\/a>will jump ship and support Hell rather than fight it in the hopes that lucrative political careers and champagne luncheons are maintained. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we know! Yes, it\u2019s a sad and frightening spectacle. \u00a0You\u2019d think no matter how the evidence was obtained, the outrage and horrifyingly repulsive and sickening display of what goes on behind Planned Parenthood doors would have turned society upside down. \u00a0I don\u2019t expect people born and baptized in the pool of narcissism and hedonism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why so many liberals love the Beatles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Now we know!Yes, it&#039;s a sad and frightening spectacle. &nbsp;You&#039;d think no matter 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