{"id":2605,"date":"2005-08-16T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2018-02-11T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:26:39","slug":"oppressive-bush-regime-dissident-round-up-misses-virulent-bush-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/16\/oppressive-bush-regime-dissident-round-up-misses-virulent-bush-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppressive Bush Regime Dissident Round-Up Misses Virulent Bush Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-bushread16aug16,0,636257,print.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines\" target=\"_new\">insults one of his readers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[Mark] Kurlansky said he was surprised to hear that Bush had taken his book to the ranch: &#8220;My first reaction was, &#8216;Oh, he reads books?&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The author said he was a &#8220;virulent Bush opponent&#8221; who had given speeches denouncing the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I find fascinating, and it&#8217;s probably a positive thing about the White House, is they don&#8217;t seem to do any research about the writers when they pick the books,&#8221; Kurlansky said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But now that you&#8217;re on record, sir; prepare for the firing squad.<\/p>\n<p>What a humpwit.  Not only has he insulted the president based on common, clich&#233; groupthink from the virulent Bush opponents, but he&#8217;s risked angering whatever readers and potential book buyers exist in the majority that elected Bush.<\/p>\n<p>A pretty poor marketing decision, but perhaps he&#8217;s just standing for his principles, which would seem to include not much beyond mauvais mots.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/my-first-reaction-was-oh-he-reads.html\" target=\"_new\">Ann Althouse<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An author insults one of his readers: [Mark] Kurlansky said he was surprised to hear that Bush had taken his book to the ranch: &#8220;My first reaction was, &#8216;Oh, he reads books?&#8217; &#8220; The author said he was a &#8220;virulent Bush opponent&#8221; who had given speeches denouncing the war in Iraq. &#8220;What I find fascinating, [&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-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","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=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19427,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/19427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}