{"id":138,"date":"2008-04-30T08:26:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-04-30T08:26:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T15:26:03","slug":"this-just-in-obama-defriends-wright-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/04\/30\/this-just-in-obama-defriends-wright-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"This just in: Obama defriends Wright on Facebook!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andy-borowitz\/obama-de-friends-wright-o_b_99376.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/03\/18\/facebooklogo.jpg\" alt=\"facebook logo\" width=\"195\" height=\"73\" \/>Andy Borowitz breaks the story<\/a> in the Huffington Post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an act that campaign insiders said indicated an irrevocable break with his former pastor, Sen. Barack Obama today de-friended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Facebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like all the fears about the divisiveness within the Democratic party are, if anything, understated.  I didn&#8217;t realize how bad it had gotten.  According to Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every day, Rev. Wright was sending Sen. Obama new Facebook applications like &#8216;What Superhero Are You?&#8217; and &#8216;What 1980&#8217;s Toy Are You?'&#8221; Mr. Axelrod said. &#8220;After awhile, enough is enough.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah really.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>One Million Strong for Barack<\/em> group is reeling over the news.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/topic.php?uid=2231653698&amp;topic=32854\">Discussion here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks to Wintana for posting this &#8212; there&#8217;s been a disgraceful lack of coverage in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Borowitz breaks the story in the Huffington Post: In an act that campaign insiders said indicated an irrevocable break with his former pastor, Sen. Barack Obama today de-friended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Facebook. It looks like all the fears about the divisiveness within the Democratic party are, if anything, understated. I didn&#8217;t realize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[133,141,245,325],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-social-computing","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-election08","tag-facebook","tag-obama","tag-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}