{"id":45226,"date":"2013-06-12T03:27:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T10:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=45226"},"modified":"2014-12-29T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:54:16","slug":"inside-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/06\/inside-the-united-states.html","title":{"rendered":"Inside the United States"},"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><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/americas\/united-states\/130607\/what-if-journalists-covered-us-like-they-cover-world\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hilarious and darkly funny piece<\/a> on what it would be like if journalists covered the US the way they cover other countries.\u00a0 What I love is that they have to have a disclaimer at the beginning explaining that it\u2019s satire since our devolution in a Kremlinesque puzzle box makes it so believable that some foreign paper might right this way about our burgeoning police\/surveillance state.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in ongoing confirmation that this is not a matter of Left vs. Right but of our Ruling Class vs. the Rest of us, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2013\/06\/11\/lindsey-graham-sure-id-support-censoring-your-mail-if-it-was-necessary-to-counterterrorism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">America\u2019s Prettiest Fascist, Lindsey\u00a0 Graham, offering to read and censor your mail to keep you safe from The Terrorists[TM]<\/a>, while long ago we have Joe Biden telling you why he opposes precisely the surveillance state tactics he now totally supports:<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:426981\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/mon-june-10-2013\/moment-of-zen---joe-biden---government-surveillance\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b><br>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/indecision\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Indecision Political Humor<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>These people are not our friends.  They lie.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilarious and darkly funny piece on what it would be like if journalists covered the US the way they cover other countries.\u00a0 What I love is that they have to have a disclaimer at the beginning explaining that it\u2019s satire since our devolution in a Kremlinesque puzzle box makes it so believable that some foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-45226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-growing-police-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inside the United States<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hilarious and darkly 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