{"id":677,"date":"2004-10-30T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/10\/30\/eminem-carves-up-bush\/"},"modified":"2004-10-30T08:46:14","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T12:46:14","slug":"eminem-carves-up-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/10\/30\/eminem-carves-up-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminem carves up Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a583'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So everyone&#8217;s heard about the video Eminem made for the upcoming election, right?  <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/gnn.tv\/videos\/video.php?id=27\">Mosh<\/a><\/b><\/i>.  It&#8217;s a bit about portable mosh pits for expressing anger,<br \/>\na bit about getting out the vote, and a bit about sticking it to the president really, really hard.  In one five minute video, <b>Slim Shady<\/b> manages to: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> reprise the scene from <i>Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/i> where Bush sits reading to elementary school kids while the second plane flies toward the Twin Towers;\n<li> suggest that Bush knew about the attacks\n<li> suggest that Cheney et al are behind the Bin Laden videos\n<li> encourage a recalled soldier to rebel against the administration (yelling &#8216;Fuck Bush!&#8217; and putting a combat knife through Bush&#8217;s head in effigy) and against his fellow soldiers (fooling them long enough to let protestors turn a firehose on them)\n<li> encourage massive civil disobedience, including storming government buildings &#8212; though in the end, <i>ha ha<\/i>, it turns out to be in order to vote in an orderly line.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So everyone&#8217;s heard about the video Eminem made for the upcoming election, right? Mosh. It&#8217;s a bit about portable mosh pits for expressing anger, a bit about getting out the vote, and a bit about sticking it to the president really, really hard. In one five minute video, Slim Shady manages to: reprise the scene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-null"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}