{"id":4081,"date":"2019-01-25T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T12:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2019-01-25T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T12:26:12","slug":"american-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4081","title":{"rendered":"American Dictator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/arts-entertainment\/2019\/01\/23\/ben-stein-compares-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-dictators-such-hitler-stalin\/\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">Conservative actor and economist Ben Stein compared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong on Tuesday, claiming that the freshman congresswoman\u2019s policies \u201cinvariably lead to bad things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">\u201cIt led to mass murder, it led to dictatorship, it led to genocide,\u201d Stein\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/video\/2019\/01\/22\/fox-business-news-ben-stein-comparies-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-rhetoric-hitler-warns-about-mass\/222597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0Fox Business\u2019s Trish Regan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This story is in the Washington Post, which along with the New York Times is commonly seen as an American <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newspaper_of_record\">newspaper of record<\/a>. This newspaper of record is owned by Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stein is described as an &#8222;actor and economist&#8220;. Actor, and economist. Is he an economist because of his 1966 degree in Economics? Because he played a high school Economics teacher in 1986 comedy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091042\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year-old Puerto Rican-American from the Bronx. She has been a US Representative for three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>You and I are awake now. We are not dreaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post: Conservative actor and economist Ben Stein compared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong on Tuesday, claiming that the freshman congresswoman\u2019s policies \u201cinvariably lead to bad things.\u201d \u201cIt led to mass murder, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4081\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}