{"id":4389,"date":"2011-11-21T14:08:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2011-11-21T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T19:14:02","slug":"more-on-that-tepid-criticism-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4389","title":{"rendered":"More on that “tepid criticism” post"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Buddy didn’t like my take on the OWS critic. Just in case my other readers want a little more elaboration on my part here’s the last couple paragraphs of my emailed reply to my Buddy:<\/p>\n

As for the “tepid criticism”<\/a> comment, well that was my take. The critic was saying something like, these clueless idealists are stealing my public space and confusing it with their free speech rights.<\/em> I agree with that criticism. But I regard that as more of an intellectual misdemeanor than a felony. <\/p>\n

To me the major point of my post was that all these “mass movements” attract a lot of fringe types but that I choose to judge them on what appears to me to their the primary unifying spirit. To me the Tea Partiers are just as clueless as the OWS movement and a tad more spiteful. Because they are older I’m inclined to be a little less forgiving of their misdemeanors. <\/p>\n

Frankly, I look at the Tea Party crowd as just the latest wave of Boomers pissing and moaning. They were probably the same crowd that protested against the War in Vietnam and I’ll bet a few of the folks I forced to step over me on their way to the college President’s office are out there waving Obama Banners that make him look like the latest actor to play Batman’s nemesis the Joker – you know the one with lipstick smeared all over his mouth. Hey, its all free speech even if it was handed out on a plate by Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Buddy didn’t like my take on the OWS critic. Just in case my other readers want a little more elaboration on my part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,96],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389"}],"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=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4410,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}