{"id":579,"date":"2006-12-28T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2006-12-29T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T14:17:05","slug":"nras-graphic-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"NRA&#8217;s Graphic Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/politics\/nra\/nras-secret-graphic-novel-revealed-223889.php\">NRA&#8217;s Secret Graphic Novel Revealed! &#8211; Wonkette<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The artwork in this forthcoming &#8220;graphic novel&#8221; (that&#8217;s really just an illustrated pamphlet as far as I can tell) by the National Rifle Association looks better than 99% of the books that won Ignatz awards at last year&#8217;s SPX.<\/p>\n<p>The lambasting the book gets from Wonkette (linked above) is funny in and of itself, but also unintentionally so, since it&#8217;s about as reactionary as the material it&#8217;s mocking.  See, the joke is that the pamphlet&#8217;s &#8220;racist,&#8221; cause&#8230;you know, everyone who&#8217;s in favor of legal ownership of handguns is racist, right?\u00a0 Get it?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/assets\/resources\/2006\/12\/animalrights.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"left\">Here, for example, is one of the biggest threats to the white suburban hunter: dirty hippies and their evil sidekicks: the dynamite-carrying owl, sinister pig, angry Wall Street bull, dire wolf, terror chicken and Land Lobster<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRA&#8217;s Secret Graphic Novel Revealed! &#8211; Wonkette The artwork in this forthcoming &#8220;graphic novel&#8221; (that&#8217;s really just an illustrated pamphlet as far as I can tell) by the National Rifle Association looks better than 99% of the books that won Ignatz awards at last year&#8217;s SPX. The lambasting the book gets from Wonkette (linked above) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=579\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-9l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}