{"id":3251,"date":"2010-09-01T04:14:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T09:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2017-03-01T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:17:36","slug":"smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched this clip from Hardball. Its gratifying when a journalist, in this case Chris Mathews, makes it clear that his know-it=not smart a** guest, in this case a GOP oriented radio talk show host, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs\">doesn&#8217;t have a clue<\/a> what he&#8217;s talking about.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, here&#8217;s what Winston Churchill said about &#8220;appeasement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The word &#8216;appeasement&#8217; is not popular, but appeasement has its place in all policy,&#8221; he said in 1950. &#8220;Make sure you put it in the right place. Appease the weak, defy the strong.&#8221; He argued that &#8220;appeasement from strength is magnanimous and noble and might be the surest and perhaps the only path to world peace.&#8221; And he remarked on the painful irony: &#8220;When nations or individuals get strong they are often truculent and bullying, but when they are weak they become better-mannered. But this is the reverse of what is healthy and wise.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I got this from the <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/08\/churchill-on-appeasement.html\">Daily Dish <\/a>which got it from someone else on the blogosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched this clip from Hardball. Its gratifying when a journalist, in this case Chris Mathews, makes it clear that his know-it=not smart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-own-party","category-my-gop-defection","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20522,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}