{"id":194611,"date":"2008-09-06T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/06\/have-you-no-sense-of-decency-sir\/"},"modified":"2008-09-06T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T00:25:00","slug":"have-you-no-sense-of-decency-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/06\/have-you-no-sense-of-decency-sir\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2008\/09\/olbermann-apologizes-for-rnc-showing.html\">Olbermann apologizes<\/a>, but what he <strong>should<\/strong> have done is ask, &#8220;<strong><em>Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/26551721#26551721\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"339\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sasha Issenberg notes that this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/politicalintelligence\/2008\/09\/the_death_of_a.html\">the death of a taboo<\/a>, and it does not bode well for our political discourse: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans, at least the idealogue ones who grew up sucking at the tit of Ayn Rand, believe that there is no role for government in public life&#8230;.None at all, so all that running for office is an attempt to grap power.<\/p>\n<p>They believe that they can do evil to seize power, because they believe that all government is evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olbermann apologizes, but what he should have done is ask, &#8220;Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?&#8220; Sasha Issenberg notes that this is the death of a taboo, and it does not bode well for our political discourse: One of the most enduring taboos in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1228,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194611"}],"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=194611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}