{"id":718,"date":"2009-02-26T14:33:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=718"},"modified":"2009-02-26T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:33:41","slug":"socialist-irony-at-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/socialist-irony-at-newsweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Irony at Newsweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/socialists-now-newsweek-cover-wmark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-717\" title=\"socialists-now-newsweek-cover-wmark\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/socialists-now-newsweek-cover-wmark-379x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/socialists-now-newsweek-cover-wmark-379x500.jpg 379w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/socialists-now-newsweek-cover-wmark.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This Newsweek cover from a couple weeks ago had an unconscious irony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Newsweek touted an article &#8220;Quitting the Thug Life&#8221; at the same time that they proclaimed &#8220;We Are All Socialists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Perhaps Newsweek&#8217;s wizards are not aware that socialism quickly degenerates into nothing more than economic thuggery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But as long as the New Socialism works out well for the media-political elite, who gives a rat&#8217;s patooie?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/747.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Newsweek cover from a couple weeks ago had an unconscious irony. Newsweek touted an article &#8220;Quitting the Thug Life&#8221; at the same time that they proclaimed &#8220;We Are All Socialists.&#8221; Perhaps Newsweek&#8217;s wizards are not aware that socialism quickly degenerates into nothing more than economic thuggery. 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