{"id":383,"date":"2005-11-18T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T00:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2005\/11\/18\/france-the-wingnut-litmus-test-conti"},"modified":"2005-11-18T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T00:52:25","slug":"france-the-wingnut-litmus-test-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2005\/11\/18\/france-the-wingnut-litmus-test-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"France: the Wingnut Litmus Test Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a446'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago, Mitt Romney, our Massachusetts Governor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2005\/11\/16\/romney_joins_a_chorus_of_france_bashers\/\">joined the Bash-France club<\/a>. Meanwhile, the right-wing movement RightMarch has just released a song called &#8220;Bush Was Right,&#8221; whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightmarch.com\/media\/BushWasRight-ad.pdf\">lyrics include (PDF)<\/a>, out of nowhere, the line &#8220;France was wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My Litmus Test continues. If you bash France for no particular reason, as a diversion, as an off-the-cuff remark, there&#8217;s a really good chance that you&#8217;re a crazy right-winger. No cauasl relationship, I don&#8217;t think, but this test is proving to be surprisingly accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, Mitt Romney, our Massachusetts Governor, joined the Bash-France club. Meanwhile, the right-wing movement RightMarch has just released a song called &#8220;Bush Was Right,&#8221; whose lyrics include (PDF), out of nowhere, the line &#8220;France was wrong.&#8221; My Litmus Test continues. If you bash France for no particular reason, as a diversion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}