{"id":2143,"date":"2004-01-15T04:30:35","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T20:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/15\/lets-kill-him\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:14:35","slug":"lets-kill-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/15\/lets-kill-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s kill him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10680,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bushin30seconds.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12091,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\\\/eyv\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/a_good_morning_.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050325042300\\\/http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com:80\\\/eyv\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/a_good_morning_.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:30:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:40:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:40:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This has been amusing me all morning &#8212; ever since I read it, it&#8217;ll pop back into my head and I&#8217;ll start laughing again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  At the MoveOn.org awards presentation &#91;for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushin30seconds.org\/\" title=\"Bush in 30 Seconds\">Bush in 30 Seconds<\/a>&#93;, Al Franken made the sign-language interpreter crack up by saying solemnly, &#8220;I heard Al Franken make fun of deaf people backstage. Let&#8217;s kill him.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>That<\/em>, my friends, is good comedy.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\/eyv\/2004\/01\/a_good_morning_.html\" title=\"A good morning laugh\">Lane<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Pandora&#8217;s Aquarium&#8221; by Amos, Tori from the album <em>From the Choirgirl Hotel<\/em> (1998, 4:45).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the MoveOn.org awards presentation [for Bush in 30 Seconds], Al Franken made the sign-language interpreter crack up by saying solemnly, &#8216;I heard Al Franken make fun of deaf people backstage. Let&#8217;s kill him.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}