{"id":245,"date":"2006-05-17T14:15:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T19:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-03-03T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T03:23:26","slug":"it-takes-one-to-see-through-the-fakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"It takes one to see through the fakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read the best indictment of right wing punditry. Not coincidentally it was written by a conservative. He doesn&#8217;t even give the blogosphere&#8217;s myopic, pro-Bush supporters credit for being &#8220;conservatives.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/glenngreenwald.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/do-bush-followers-have-political.html\">It was a genuine pleasure to read.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0one sample with an inspired observation about the\u00a0value of the blogosphere:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The combination here of rage and fear is potent and toxic. One of the principal benefits of the blogosphere &#8212; with its daily posting and unedited expressions of thought &#8212; is that it reveals one&#8217;s genuine underlying views in a much more honest and unadorned fashion than other venues of expression. For that reason, the true sentiments of bloggers often stand revealed for all to see.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read the best indictment of right wing punditry. Not coincidentally it was written by a conservative. He doesn&#8217;t even give the blogosphere&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,46,4,14,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21054,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/21054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}