{"id":383,"date":"2005-01-11T11:06:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T15:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=383"},"modified":"2005-01-11T11:06:52","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T15:06:52","slug":"before-jon-stewart-there-was-frank-zappa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/01\/11\/before-jon-stewart-there-was-frank-zappa\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Jon Stewart there was Frank Zappa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a little retro-80s political wonk amusement, surf on over to the ifilm.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/bigpicture\/bestvirals2004\">Best Viral Videos<\/a> collection and play the clip of Frank Zapp on <i>Crossfire<\/i> in 1986.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Frank Zappa: &#8220;The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it&#8217;s moving America towards a fascist theocrocy.  And everything that&#8217;s happened during the Reagan administration is steering us down that pipe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Novak: &#8220;Mr. Zappa, do you &#8230; do you really think, I mean all kidding aside, in this country with the permissiveness, that we are moving towards a fascist theocracy?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The more things change, the more they stay the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a little retro-80s political wonk amusement, surf on over to the ifilm.com Best Viral Videos collection and play the clip of Frank Zapp on Crossfire in 1986. Frank Zappa: &#8220;The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it&#8217;s moving America towards a fascist theocrocy. And everything that&#8217;s happened during the Reagan administration is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/01\/11\/before-jon-stewart-there-was-frank-zappa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Before Jon Stewart there was Frank Zappa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}