{"id":4606,"date":"2009-11-18T11:12:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:31:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:31:43","slug":"the-onion-takes-on-the-teabagger-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/11\/18\/the-onion-takes-on-the-teabagger-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Takes On The Teabagger Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/area_man_passionate_defender_of?\">Pwned<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head. &#8220;Our very way of life is under siege,&#8221; said Mortensen, whose understanding of the Constitution derives not from a close reading of the document but from talk-show pundits, books by television personalities, and the limitless expanse of his own colorful imagination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: &#8216;one nation under God,'&#8221; said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. &#8220;Well, there&#8217;s a reason they put that right at the top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Men like Madison and Jefferson were moved by the ideals of Christianity, and wanted the United States to reflect those values as a Christian nation,&#8221; continued Mortensen, referring to the &#8220;Father of the Constitution,&#8221; James Madison, considered by many historians to be an atheist, and Thomas Jefferson, an Enlightenment-era thinker who rejected the divinity of Christ and was in France at the time the document was written. &#8220;The words on the page speak for themselves.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pwned: Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head. &#8220;Our very way of life is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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