{"id":42038,"date":"2010-07-01T11:31:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T17:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=42038"},"modified":"2010-07-01T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T17:33:03","slug":"right-wing-news-vs-the-davids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=42038","title":{"rendered":"Right Wing News vs. The Davids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peekinthewell.net\/blog\/right-wing-news-vs-the-davids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freeberg<\/a> performs an operation known in Biblical terms as &#8216;rightly dividing the word of truth&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By \u201cThe Davids\u201d what I mean in this case is Frum, although there are others. People who sell themselves as reformed or repentant conservatives, to other people who have no idea what a conservative really is and are never going to know. Conservatives who are \u201csocial moderates,\u201d long to reach \u201cacross the aisle\u201d \u2014 who voted for Barack Obama, not as a protest against the George W. Bush free-spending (heh!), but because \u201cThere\u2019s Just Something About Him!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Anyway. Brock, Brooks, Frum, Weigel \u2014 there\u2019s just something about that name \u201cDavid.\u201d They get a business opportunity and suddenly, there\u2019s an awakening. (Not with Weigel of course, he was busted in a scandal; not that he was fooling anybody.) Oh my! We have to do this one thing \u2014 elect Obama, pass ObamaCare, whatever. I\u2019m still a conservative mind you! Although I\u2019m ashamed at some of my fellow conservatives, because it\u2019s true we\u2019re all a bunch of bigots. Except me! But I\u2019m still a conservative. Just a moderate one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeberg performs an operation known in Biblical terms as &#8216;rightly dividing the word of truth&#8217;. By \u201cThe Davids\u201d what I mean in this case is Frum, although there are others. People who sell themselves as reformed or repentant conservatives, to other people who have no idea what a conservative really is and are never going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42040,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038\/revisions\/42040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}