{"id":821,"date":"2004-03-27T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T13:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=821"},"modified":"2011-06-05T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T18:33:38","slug":"drinking-the-kool-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/drinking-the-kool-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking the Kool-Aid™"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those that don’t quite get the reference (but are afraid to ask), it’s basically the new catch phrase being tossed around on all sides of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n

It’s in reference to the 1978 mass suicides in Jonestown, Guyana by the cult of Reverend Jim Jones. They believed his every word, they slaughtered a Congressman and his entourage, and they drank cyanide-laced kool-aid… because Rev. Jim said so.<\/p>\n

\"WhattaTo make this new phrase easier for Americans to understand, Kool-Aid\u2122<\/sup> has a new line of flavors<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

So when you’re a lefty buying in to all of the silly 9\/11 conspiracy theories because no one in the White House is talking… you’re “drinking the Kool-Aid\u2122<\/sup>“<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re a winger following this administration without question because at least no one is getting nookie in the Oval Office and lying under oath about it… you’re “drinking the Kool-Aid\u2122<\/sup>“<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(via Blunted on Reality<\/a>)
\nMe? I drink Coca Cola exclusively.
\nHow about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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