{"id":1462,"date":"2011-06-01T22:28:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T02:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2011-06-01T22:28:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T02:28:33","slug":"if-were-known-by-our-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1462","title":{"rendered":"If we’re known by our enemies…"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a story in the news<\/a> the other day that is just too good not to comment on.\u00a0 The Phelpsian Asshats at the Westboro Baptist Church were once again promoting their asshattery – and this time they wanted to prove what a bunch a narrowminded jerks they are in front of Arlington National Cemetery,\u00a0while the President\u00a0led\u00a0Memorial Day observances at the Tomb of the Unknowns.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

They’re out there exercising their right to free speech – letting us all know that “we shouldn’t idolize the dead, especially those who died for an unrighteous cause.”\u00a0 Like, you know, defending their right to free speech.\u00a0 Asshats.<\/p>\n

Anyway, who’s out there protesting the protesters?\u00a0 A bunch of folks!\u00a0 Since this is DC,\u00a0with a good rally and some social twick-or-tweeting, we can get\u00a04-5 deep:\u00a0 The marchers, the march-protesters, those protesting the march-protesters, those people out to protest the people protesting the protesters, and so on.\u00a0 If they’re not wearing badges, you need a scorecard.\u00a0 And that’s just a Tuesday.<\/p>\n

So the Westboro Asshats aren’t there alone.\u00a0 They have enemies, out to protest them.\u00a0 Included in those numbers, it turned out, was the\u00a0Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

Neil Gaiman found himself in a public tiff with an idiot<\/a>\u00a0a few weeks ago, and was heard to remark:\u00a0 \u201cIf a man is known by his enemies, I think my stock just went up a little.\u201d<\/p>\n

When even the KKK thinks your position is outside the pale, and that you might be a little narrowminded about all this, well, I think Westboro’s stock just went down –\u00a0a lot.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I hadn’t thought they could get lower, but they did.\u00a0 The best comment I’ve heard on the whole thing was that we should find a way to get both groups in a steel-cage deathmatch.\u00a0 Who would win?\u00a0 We would – I’m not opening the cage.\u00a0 Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When even the KKK thinks your position is outside the pale, and that you might be a little narrowminded about all this, well, I think Westboro Baptist’s stock just went down – a lot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,16,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}