{"id":78154,"date":"2012-07-29T18:09:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T00:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=78154"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:49:41","slug":"jonathan-chait-is-vermin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=78154","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Chait Is Vermin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15261\/jonathan-chait-is-vermin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quin Hilyer<\/a> reacts to Jonathan Chait&#8217;s thesis that the reason Republicans dislike Obama is racism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What a steaming load of diseased dung this is. The time has come to call this \u201cracism\u201d wolf cry what it really is: the Left\u2019s version of McCarthyism. As with the original, the game is to accuse adversaries of something awful, and awfully untrue, purely for political effect, to cause a political wound. (The difference is that at least McCarthy had some small basis for his vilely overstated accusations, as the Venona documents have since shown; this cry of racism, here as in so many of the Left\u2019s uses of it in recent years, has not even a shred of truth to it.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reason Barack Obama\u2019s outlook is alien to the American tradition is not because he is black; it is because he was mentored by a Communist, raised by leftists, inculcated with foreign values in Indonesia, befriended (and willing befriending of) some of the vilest radicals and terrorists on American soil, studied and emulated the evil Saul Alinksy, and consciously chose (by his own testimony in his crafted, semi-fictionalized \u201cautobiography\u201d) the persona of a man disaffected from and antagonistic to many of the values historically adopted and admired by most Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quin Hilyer reacts to Jonathan Chait&#8217;s thesis that the reason Republicans dislike Obama is racism. What a steaming load of diseased dung this is. The time has come to call this \u201cracism\u201d wolf cry what it really is: the Left\u2019s version of McCarthyism. As with the original, the game is to accuse adversaries of something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78154","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\/78154","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=78154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415295,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78154\/revisions\/415295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}