{"id":199684,"date":"2007-07-05T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/05\/people-that-i-hate-to-agree-with\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T16:16:00","slug":"people-that-i-hate-to-agree-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/05\/people-that-i-hate-to-agree-with\/","title":{"rendered":"People that I Hate To Agree With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I find myself agreeing with people or organizations that I find abhorent.<br \/>This is one of those times.<br \/>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/07\/marty-on-libby.html\">Andrew Sullivan, Proud Endorser of the Racist and Sloppy Bell Curve<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The bottom line for Americans is this: George Bush&#8217;s friends do not go to jail. Your friends do.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very simple matter. Either Libby is subject to the rule of law or not. Bush&#8217;s action is constitutionally solid but morally and politically indefensible &#8211; an act of arrogance born of permanent privilege that still, somehow, even after all these years, manages to shock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if that didn&#8217;t make me feel queasy, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/article\/20070704\/EDITORIAL\/107040022\/1013\/editorial\">The <s>Moonie<\/s> Washington Times<\/a>, whose sole purpose seems to be giving the New York Sun a run for its money regarding the hackticular nature of it&#8217;s news and editorial sections:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">But none of this exonerates the commutation. Perjury is a serious crime. This newspaper argued on behalf of its seriousness in the 1990s, during the Clinton perjury controversy, and today is no different. We&#8217;d have hoped that more conservatives would agree. The integrity of the judicial process depends on fact-finding and truth-telling. A jury found Libby guilty of not only perjury but also obstruction justice and lying to a grand jury. It handed down a very supportable verdict.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I find myself agreeing with people or organizations that I find abhorent.This is one of those times.First, Andrew Sullivan, Proud Endorser of the Racist and Sloppy Bell Curve: The bottom line for Americans is this: George Bush&#8217;s friends do not go to jail. Your friends do. This is a very simple &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,972,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-justice","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199684"}],"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=199684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}