{"id":2897,"date":"2009-08-13T22:09:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T06:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2009-08-13T22:17:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T06:17:05","slug":"true-blood-and-mrs-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/true-blood-and-mrs-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"True Blood and Mrs. Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/true_blood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2901\" title=\"TB2_Poster2.qxd:Layout 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/true_blood.jpg?resize=170%2C252\" alt=\"TB2_Poster2.qxd:Layout 2\" width=\"170\" height=\"252\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After initially dismissing the HBO vampire series &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/trueblood\/season2\/\" target=\"_blank\">True Blood<\/a>&#8221; as cartoonish, I am now completely hooked. The most recent episode was truly disgusting, wasn&#8217;t it?! Watching Tara and Eggs eat the you-know-what (not a spoiler!!) I was close to gagging.<\/p>\n<p>What a great show! All the hunky gayness and intensity of <strong>Six Feet Under<\/strong> without the painful insights and lingering grief.<\/p>\n<p>One of the scariest aspects of True Blood is its portrait of crazy, fear-mongering Christians. The characters are over the top, yes, but no more so than the lunatics we are seeing on the news every day, warning about Obama&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>Death Panels&#8221;<\/strong> and killing innocent children and grandmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Palin<\/strong> has been one of the most vocal of the right wing fear-mongers, once again exploiting that poor little Trig instead of getting him the services he needs. Her ceaseless squawking about Death Panels and <strong>euthanasia<\/strong> has prompted reporters to look into her own policies on health-care as Governor of Alaska. Sure enough, Mrs. Palin was <a href=\"http:\/\/donklephant.com\/2009\/08\/13\/palin-endorsed-end-of-life-counseling-as-alaska-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\">in favor<\/a> of providing &#8216;end-of-life&#8217; counseling, the very same measure she now finds so deplorable.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah, you ignorant slut, when will you learn to keep your mouth shut and stop makin&#8217; things up?!&nbsp;\u00a0 The video below reminds us how art imitates life in the case of True Blood&#8217;s fanatical Fellowship of the Sun.&nbsp;\u00a0 It also reminds us to fear ignorance more than hunky vampires.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8twqZpUT2NQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8twqZpUT2NQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After initially dismissing the HBO vampire series &#8220;True Blood&#8221; as cartoonish, I am now completely hooked. The most recent episode was truly disgusting, wasn&#8217;t it?! Watching Tara and Eggs eat the you-know-what (not a spoiler!!) I was close to gagging. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/true-blood-and-mrs-palin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,5,8,11],"tags":[373,378,412,672],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-KJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}