{"id":89,"date":"2006-02-03T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T21:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/03\/chavez-is-hitler\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"chavez-is-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/03\/chavez-is-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavez is Hitler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a statement recently where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2006\/02\/03\/national\/w102220S62.DTL&#038;feed=rss.news\" target=\"_blank\">he likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler.<\/a>  The crucial paragraph is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I mean, we&#8217;ve got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money,&#8221; Rumsfeld added. &#8220;He&#8217;s a person who was elected legally ? just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally ? and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I could go on about the inflammatory rhetoric and lies about Chavez continually coming out of the Bush Administration.  Or I could point out the similarities between Hitler and Rumsfeld&#8217;s own boss.  Or that the last time the Bush Administration made inflammatory statements comparing contemporary politics to World War II they turned out to be very very wrong.  But instead I&#8217;ll just say: the best comparison Rumsfeld can come up with between Chavez and Hitler is that they&#8217;ve both been <i>legally elected<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Stop the presses, dictator is in da house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a statement recently where he likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler. The crucial paragraph is this: &#8220;I mean, we&#8217;ve got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money,&#8221; Rumsfeld added. &#8220;He&#8217;s a person who was elected legally ? just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally ? and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}