{"id":742,"date":"2005-12-01T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=742"},"modified":"2005-12-03T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T21:36:29","slug":"duke-goes-gonzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/duke-goes-gonzo","title":{"rendered":"Duke Goes Gonzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the lack of updates, witticisms, etc., dear readers. I&#8217;ve been swamped with work on the year-end issue of the magazine and taking care of wedding details, while Amy &#038; I have been adjusting to our new living-in-sin work schedules. I oughtta be back on track in a week or so.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason I haven&#8217;t posted is because my head was blown off by the news that David Duke, Klansman and former representative from Louisiana, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memri.org\/bin\/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD103505\" target=\"_blank\">spoke at a rally in Damascus to support Bashar Assad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I thought, &#8220;There&#8217;s no way on earth this story is real. Sure, it&#8217;d make for a great &#8216;Anti-Zionism Leads to Strange Bedfellows&#8217; headline, but come on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amy, a Louisiana native, asked, &#8220;Do you think he hates Jews more than non-whites?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I opined that he probably doesn&#8217;t <em>hate<\/em> non-whites so much as he doesn&#8217;t want them in America. As long as they stick to Syria, I bet he&#8217;s fine with the existence of Arab people. In principle.<\/p>\n<p>So I finally sat down last night and tried to source the story. First thing I found? Why, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidduke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD&#8221;<\/a>! And it&#8217;s <em>filled<\/em> with links and soundclips from Duke&#8217;s visit to Syria! Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em>(And I&#8217;ve determined that it&#8217;s okay&#8211;despite all the hardships that hurricane Katrina has inflicted on people&#8211;to laugh about the fact that it also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidduke.com\/?p=425\" target=\"_blank\">dropped a tree on Duke&#8217;s house<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the lack of updates, witticisms, etc., dear readers. I&#8217;ve been swamped with work on the year-end issue of the magazine and taking care of wedding details, while Amy &#038; I have been adjusting to our new living-in-sin work schedules. I oughtta be back on track in a week or so. Part of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/duke-goes-gonzo\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Duke Goes Gonzo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-bY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1257,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-dat","url_meta":{"origin":742,"position":0},"title":"Who dat?","author":"Gil","date":"December 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Amy & I are heading to Louisiana tomorrow for the holidays. 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He found people trying to build\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Orleans&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Orleans","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/new-orleans"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1055,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dog-hair-etc","url_meta":{"origin":742,"position":3},"title":"Dog, hair, etc.","author":"Gil","date":"July 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Surprise, dear readers! Amy & I are down in Louisiana, having surprised the official VM mother-in-law for her brithday yesterday! 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