{"id":1826,"date":"2005-01-06T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2018-07-28T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:14:12","slug":"1826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/06\/1826\/","title":{"rendered":"Roeper Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his column today, Richard Roeper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/roeper\/cst-nws-roep06.html\" target=\"_new\">responds to respondents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apparently, Republicans aren&#8217;t the most introspective people in the world. In a column earlier this week, I asked them not to contact me &#8212; but to ask themselves if they would have criticized Bill Clinton if he had been as indecisive as President Bush was last week in reacting to the tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of the column appearing, at least 200 Bush-backers e-mailed or called me to react (often with obscenities and name-calling) to an item in which I specifically requested that they not contact me.<\/p>\n<p>Hilarious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/archives\/2005_01_02_archive.html#110486821910557756\" target=\"_new\">mentioned this story before<\/a>, and let&#8217;s recap Roeper&#8217;s exact words on this matter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To my Republicans friends:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the people he wrote him are Republicans, but not his friends.  Although I can&#8217;t imagine he has many Republican friends, I&#8217;ll bet it&#8217;s a fairly exclusive group, and they probably didn&#8217;t say a word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his column today, Richard Roeper responds to respondents: Apparently, Republicans aren&#8217;t the most introspective people in the world. In a column earlier this week, I asked them not to contact me &#8212; but to ask themselves if they would have criticized Bill Clinton if he had been as indecisive as President Bush was last [&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-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","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=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20730,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/20730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}