{"id":195953,"date":"2008-06-03T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/03\/enough-is-bloody-enough\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T10:15:00","slug":"enough-is-bloody-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/03\/enough-is-bloody-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough is Bloody Enough!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by saying that I am not a fan of Barack Obama.  He want to the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/sorry-obama-is-engaging-in-dog-whistle.html\">bottom of my preferred nominee list in October<\/a>, so I understand the imperative that some pro-Clinton bloggers feel on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>There has clearly been a lot of misogyny in the campaign, both on the part of the blogosphere and the MSM, and calling both groups out on this is justified.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the sort of Teflon he has experienced with the MSM is something appropriate to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, there are differences in how this is handled, with folks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/\">BTD and Jerylyn<\/a> being generally fairly well reasoned and calm, with <a href=\"http:\/\/taylormarsh.com\/\">Taylor Marsh<\/a> being over the top with alarming regularly, though not universally, and <a href=\"http:\/\/noquarterusa.net\/\">Larry Johnson<\/a> being completely batsh%$ insane to the degree that he is quoting former Nixon dirty trickster, and wife swapper, Roger Stone.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s OK not to like Obama, and to see him as either weak or lacking in candor (or both).<\/p>\n<p> I do, and have ever since he threw gays under the bus in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>But this does not mean that you pick up anything scrawled on a bathroom wall, and run with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by saying that I am not a fan of Barack Obama. He want to the bottom of my preferred nominee list in October, so I understand the imperative that some pro-Clinton bloggers feel on this issue. There has clearly been a lot of misogyny in the campaign, both on the part of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997,1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195953"}],"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=195953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}