{"id":182520,"date":"2015-08-24T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/24\/get-a-fing-grip\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T23:09:00","slug":"get-a-fing-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/24\/get-a-fing-grip\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a F%$#ing Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <i>Talking Points Memo<\/i>, and came across a <b>very<\/b> overwrought article titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/ted-cruz-chris-christie-jimmy-carter\">Christie And Cruz Hammer Cancer-Stricken Jimmy Carter On The Trail<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.  This is a bit much.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer or no cancer, it is OK to criticize a former President&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing wrong, for example, with my saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/deep-thoughts-2016-edition.html\">I was stunned to discover that Jeb Bush was the stupid Bush brother<\/a>, and it is fine to say this regardless of the health status Jeb, or George W., or George H.W. or any of the Bush Crime  Family<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>They disagree with the foreign policies of the Carter administration, I do too, but on the opposite side of the issue:  They felt that Carter was too unwilling to use military force, while <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=carter+war+criminal&amp;max-results=20&amp;by-date=true\">I consider Jimmy Carter to be a war criminal for the evil that he inflicted on Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The validity of these viewpoints has nothing to do with his health.<\/p>\n<p>If they were making jokes <b>about<\/b> his cancer, I could see a cause for outrage, but this is a different kettle of fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Talking Points Memo, and came across a very overwrought article titled, &#8220;Christie And Cruz Hammer Cancer-Stricken Jimmy Carter On The Trail.&#8221; Seriously. This is a bit much. Cancer or no cancer, it is OK to criticize a former President&#8217;s policies. There is nothing wrong, for example, with my saying that I was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1218,978,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manners","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182520"}],"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=182520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}