{"id":256,"date":"2006-02-01T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T21:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=256"},"modified":"2006-02-01T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T21:24:35","slug":"how-low-can-they-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"How low can they go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another one for the file marked &#8220;Bush&#8217;s opponents are so<br \/>\nderanged that they are good reasons to support him&#8221;.  At The Corner,<br \/>\nvia InstaPundit, Tim Graham has <a href='http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/06_01_29_corner-archive.asp#089046'>this<br \/>\nreport:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDriving in, I had to sample some &#8220;progressive talk&#8221; on the SOTU [State of the<br \/>\nUnion address]. At the Stephanie Miller Show, they were laughing about (and<br \/>\nplaying an audio montage of) how many times Bush used the &#8220;F-Bomb&#8221; last night.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s their strange description of the word &#8220;freedom.&#8221; They also mocked the<br \/>\nmentions of &#8220;liberty.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a symptom of how degraded the soi-disant &#8220;progressive&#8221; wing of<br \/>\nAmerican political culture has become.  I don&#8217;t like George Bush much, but<br \/>\nas long as his opponents behave like this they make him look like the least<br \/>\nnasty choice.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe I&#8217;m wrong.  Maybe &#8220;respectable&#8221; liberals and the Democratic<br \/>\nleadership will actually come out against treating the words &#8220;freedom&#8221; and<br \/>\n&#8220;liberty&#8221; as obscenities or jokes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;the sound of crickets chirping&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another one for the file marked &#8220;Bush&#8217;s opponents are so deranged that they are good reasons to support him&#8221;. At The Corner, via InstaPundit, Tim Graham has this report: Driving in, I had to sample some &#8220;progressive talk&#8221; on the SOTU [State of the Union address]. At the Stephanie Miller Show, they were laughing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=256\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How low can they go?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}