{"id":178724,"date":"2018-09-05T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/05\/about-that-ny-times-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T23:10:00","slug":"about-that-ny-times-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/05\/about-that-ny-times-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"About that NY Times OP\/ED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve generally found Chris Hays to be a bit glib and shallow, but his analysis of this now viral <i>New York Times<\/i> opinion piece  by a senior official inside the White House is spot on:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The op-ed is an attempt to take out an insurance policy for the GOP and conservatism if and when things get much much worse. It&#8217;s a very public hedge meant to preserve the reputation of the GOP&#8217;s entire political and governing class.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrislhayes\/status\/1037478283531706371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This editorial is an effort at ass-covering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve generally found Chris Hays to be a bit glib and shallow, but his analysis of this now viral New York Times opinion piece by a senior official inside the White House is spot on: The op-ed is an attempt to take out an insurance policy for the GOP and conservatism if and when things &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,374,454],"class_list":["post-178724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-politics","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}