{"id":2570,"date":"2010-02-27T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2010-02-28T23:51:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T03:51:32","slug":"gafney-logo-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/02\/27\/gafney-logo-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankly My Dear Gaffney, You’re Nuts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right-wing activist Frank Gaffney is at it again. His latest tin-foil hat paranoia involves the Missile Defense Agency’s website logo which, according to Gaffney, is part of a “nefarious” pro-Islam, submission to Shariah plot.<\/a> As Gaffney sees it<\/a>, the logo evokes all sorts of evil stuff:<\/p>\n

… the new MDA shield appears ominously to reflect a morphing of the Islamic crescent and star with the Obama campaign logo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The alleged plot is ever-so-slightly undermined, however, by the timing of the logo’s design<\/a> — a full year before Obama’s presidential election.<\/p>\n

So it’s back to the conspiracy drawing board for Frank Gaffney. I guess I’ll celebrate with a limerick:<\/p>\n

Frankly My Dear Gaffney, You’re Nuts
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

At Obama Frank Gaffney takes aim.
\nA “nefarious” plot is his claim.
\nWhat’s his latest complaint?
\nLogo’s “Islam”-like taint.
\nWhat a shame that Bush-Cheney’s to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right-wing activist Frank Gaffney is at it again. His latest tin-foil hat paranoia involves the Missile Defense Agency’s website logo which, according to Gaffney, is part of a “nefarious” pro-Islam, submission to Shariah plot. As Gaffney sees it, the logo evokes all sorts of evil stuff: … the new MDA shield appears ominously to reflect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,38,1152,719,154,6,7,3,17,69],"tags":[1156,2872,1157,1153,1154,1158,1155,1162],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy","category-frank-gaffney","category-national-security-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house","category-wingnuts","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-frank-gaffney","tag-islam","tag-mda-logo","tag-missile-defense-agency","tag-nefarious-plots","tag-right-wing-paranoia","tag-shariah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}