{"id":183099,"date":"2015-03-13T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/13\/quote-of-the-day-162\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T02:23:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/13\/quote-of-the-day-162\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Let us put this as plainly as possible. William Kristol is a coward. When his own country needed soldiers to fight in the jungle, he was too busy at Harvard. For that matter, I don&#8217;t believe he has volunteered to fight the &#8220;civilizational struggle&#8221; in Israel, either, as some Americans have done. He at least could have hoisted his entitled ass out of his sinecure and lived in a West Bank settlement for a few years. One thing he hasn&#8217;t done is earned the right to denigrate the president&#8217;s record of service by comparing it to Netanyahu&#8217;s. He wasn&#8217;t decent enough to have emulated the former, nor courageous enough to have emulated the latter. A lot of institutions need a few good men. William Kristol never has been either one.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014The inimitable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a33170\/today-in-outright-sociopathy-william-kristols-bibi-netanyahu-love\/?mag=esq&amp;click=yr\">Charlie Pierce<\/a> on the waste of protoplasm, and searing indictment of nepotism, that is Bill Kristol<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One wonders how someone so consistently repugnant, and even more consistently wrong, is still viewed by the establishment as a serious thinker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us put this as plainly as possible. William Kristol is a coward. When his own country needed soldiers to fight in the jungle, he was too busy at Harvard. For that matter, I don&#8217;t believe he has volunteered to fight the &#8220;civilizational struggle&#8221; in Israel, either, as some Americans have done. He at least &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1051,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-hypocrisy","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183099"}],"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=183099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}