{"id":4551,"date":"2008-08-16T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T20:59:15","slug":"right-wing-polemic-books-are-pornography-left-wing-polemics-are-michelangelos-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/16\/right-wing-polemic-books-are-pornography-left-wing-polemics-are-michelangelos-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing Polemic Books Are Pornography; Left-Wing Polemics Are Michelangelo&#8217;s David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broad-minded <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/blogzone\/the-platform\/campaign-2008\/2008\/08\/political-pornography-exposed\/\" target=\"_blank\">compares <i>Obama Nation<\/i> and <i>Unfit Command<\/i> to pornography<\/a>, building a facile syllogism to support his metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>No comment on McCain or Bush hatchet jobs, and the author says he doesn&#8217;t read the books because he doesn&#8217;t like peep shows, either.<\/p>\n<p>Except that, of course, the books offer ideas instead of naked pictures.  But the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> intelligentsia doesn&#8217;t need to actually read books to tut-tut the wrong thinking within them, doesn&#8217;t need to actually answer arguments when &#8211;hey! Look!  Straw man!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care for the books myself because they tend to be facile and unconvincing.  Kind of like <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broad-minded St. Louis Post-Dispatch blogger compares Obama Nation and Unfit Command to pornography, building a facile syllogism to support his metaphor. No comment on McCain or Bush hatchet jobs, and the author says he doesn&#8217;t read the books because he doesn&#8217;t like peep shows, either. Except that, of course, the books offer ideas instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","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=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17429,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/17429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}