{"id":189396,"date":"2010-04-04T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/04\/conservatives-feel-entitled-to-their-own-facts\/"},"modified":"2010-04-04T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:47:00","slug":"conservatives-feel-entitled-to-their-own-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/04\/conservatives-feel-entitled-to-their-own-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Feel Entitled to Their Own Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As evidenced by the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2010\/04\/01\/91478\/some-conservatives-rewrite-history.html\">assault on history by conservatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cases in point, arguing that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">Alexander Hamilton<\/span>, the most vociferous supporter of a strong government and against the powers of the states amongst the Federalists, who themselves supported a strong central government, opposed a strong central government.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=McLeroy\">Texas text books rewriting history<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That the deaths at Jamestown in its first years were because it was a socialist endeavor.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li> The truth is that, &#8220;The Jamestown settlement was a capitalist venture financed by the Virginia Company of London \u2014 a joint stock corporation \u2014 to make a profit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Teddy Roosevelt was a socialist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We could go on and on, but the lesson to be learned is that when talking to conservatives, you need to confirm if they say that milk is white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As evidenced by the recent assault on history by conservatives. Cases in point, arguing that: Alexander Hamilton, the most vociferous supporter of a strong government and against the powers of the states amongst the Federalists, who themselves supported a strong central government, opposed a strong central government. Texas text books rewriting history. That the deaths &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1011,1051,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-history","category-hypocrisy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189396"}],"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=189396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}