{"id":1259,"date":"2004-08-20T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2018-08-13T05:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:54:01","slug":"1259","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/1259\/","title":{"rendered":"So-Called Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <i>alleged<\/i> &#8220;professional&#8221; writer deploys the bane of my existence.  Eleanor Clift, writing in <i>Newsweek<\/i>, uses &#8220;so-called&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5772260\/site\/newsweek\/\" target=\"_new\">disparage something<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact that Kerry attributed the breakdown in military discipline to the policymakers in Washington is lost on these men, who take Kerry\u2019s words personally. This is not about Kerry\u2019s performance in Vietnam; it\u2019s what he said when he came home. Kerry has never made extravagant claims about his heroism in Vietnam. He never said his wounds were serious, and he never said he didn\u2019t want to get out of Vietnam. After three wounds, under military rules, he was entitled to ship out, which he did after a combat tour of four months and 12 days. Nothing these <b>so-called Veterans for Truth<\/b> have come up with contradicts what Kerry has said, but that\u2019s not the point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on, Eleanor; so-called makes your prose sound more juvenile than your content does.  It&#8217;s &#8220;talk to the hand&#8221; or &#8220;whatever&#8221;; if you say so-called past age 23, your development has arrested.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/7272\" target=\"_new\">Outside the Beltway<\/a>, where James Joyner thoroughly fisks Clift&#8217;s column.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another alleged &#8220;professional&#8221; writer deploys the bane of my existence. Eleanor Clift, writing in Newsweek, uses &#8220;so-called&#8221; to disparage something: The fact that Kerry attributed the breakdown in military discipline to the policymakers in Washington is lost on these men, who take Kerry\u2019s words personally. This is not about Kerry\u2019s performance in Vietnam; it\u2019s what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22953,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/22953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}