{"id":91,"date":"2007-03-29T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T00:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=91"},"modified":"2007-03-29T18:21:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T00:21:01","slug":"greenwald-nails-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Greenwald Nails It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant post over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2007\/03\/29\/brooks\/index.html\">Salon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt would maximize clarity in our political discussions if journalists could just ingest Brooks&#8217; central point: the dominant right-wing political movement in this country that has spawned and driven the Bush presidency has nothing to do with &#8212; it is in fact overtly hostile to &#8212; the ostensible principles of Goldwater\/Reagan small-government conservatism. Though today&#8217;s so-called &#8220;conservatives&#8221; exploit the Goldwater\/Reagan mythology as a political prop, they don&#8217;t believe in those principles in any way. That movement is the very antithesis of those principles.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant post over at Salon. It would maximize clarity in our political discussions if journalists could just ingest Brooks&#8217; central point: the dominant right-wing political movement in this country that has spawned and driven the Bush presidency has nothing to do with &#8212; it is in fact overtly hostile to &#8212; the ostensible principles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=91\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greenwald Nails It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}