{"id":3461,"date":"2011-01-13T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2017-03-01T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:59:20","slug":"palin-having-it-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"Palin &#8211; having it both ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2011\/01\/palins-self-refudiation.html\">observant listene<\/a>r commenting on the Sullivan blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. &#8220;Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8220;Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the first statement, she is saying that you can&#8217;t incite people to violence, they stand on their own. The second statement, however, makes the opposite claim (that you can incite people to violence).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t blame Palin for the Arizona murders. I do see her as part of today&#8217;s dumb ass politics. This sort of reasoning is what I&#8217;ve come to expect from the woman who can see Russia from Wassila. This one wasn&#8217;t even a tweet. She had it entered into a teleprompter.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve supplied plenty of smart aleck commentary about some local Duluth politicians. If any of them were to be attacked I would expect to be blamed for inciting the attacker. (Although so far its only my allies who have been <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3303\">handcuffed<\/a>) Would that criticism be fair? Maybe. Has my commentary been fair? Maybe not. Is scorn an appropriate attitude to take in public discourse? I do make use of it whether its the best means of making a point or not. I hope that most of the time when I write scornfully of others I can provide legitimate examples of actions worthy of scorn. The example above of Palin&#8217;s <em>refudiation<\/em> of what she has just said is, I think, such a worthy example.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Sarah&#8217;s boss at Fox News, <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/11\/ailes-to-fox-anchors-tone-it-down\/?hp\">Roger Ailes<\/a>, tells his employees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually. You don&#8217;t have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sure sounds like an admission that the &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; news station represents one side. I wonder which one it is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an observant listener commenting on the Sullivan blog: 1. &#8220;Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461"}],"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=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20491,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/20491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}