{"id":190906,"date":"2009-10-16T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/16\/shoot-me-i-agree-with-fred-hiatt\/"},"modified":"2009-10-16T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:20:00","slug":"shoot-me-i-agree-with-fred-hiatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/16\/shoot-me-i-agree-with-fred-hiatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoot Me, I Agree with Fred Hiatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img94.imageshack.us\/img94\/1276\/2dgkdnp0426924.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img94.imageshack.us\/img94\/1276\/2dgkdnp0426924.png\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>With the exception of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wall Street Journal<\/span> editorial, I can think of no OP\/ED section in the country that contains more ignorance, flat out lies, and sociopathic ideation than that of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/11\/AR2009101101549.html\">the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Post<\/span> is right<\/a> when they argue against additional aid to bolster housing prices.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The financial crisis was partly the result of years of government-encouraged over-investment in residential real estate. When will the federal government start working on an exit strategy and a new, more rational housing policy &#8212; one in which individual homeownership occupies a central, but less heavily subsidized, position?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would note that they were big into Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Ownership Society&#8221;, which included a lot of government subsidies for home ownership, so it is not unreasonable to think that the reason that they oppose current measures, and supported old measures, is because IOKIYAR<sup>*<\/sup> is a way of life for these folks.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">O<\/span>K <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I<\/span>f <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Y<\/span>ou <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A<\/span>re a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">R<\/span>epublican.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the exception of the Wall Street Journal editorial, I can think of no OP\/ED section in the country that contains more ignorance, flat out lies, and sociopathic ideation than that of the Washington Post. That being said, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and the Post is right when they argue &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,1064,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-media","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190906"}],"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=190906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}