{"id":16169,"date":"2016-12-19T15:16:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T22:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16169"},"modified":"2016-12-19T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T22:43:13","slug":"the-story-of-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/12\/19\/the-story-of-an-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"the story of an idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A political cartoon, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;ll be published or hung somewhere.\u00c2\u00a0 Two Face of the Batman comics.\u00c2\u00a0 On the first end he&#8217;s saying something about Birther-ism, on the second end he&#8217;s raving about the CIA hacking and this election.<\/p>\n<p>A false equivalence.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose the end comes up the same &#8212; if you want the equivalence to land the other direction at least there was an election taking place with the second to settle the flood of minutiae <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/podesta-emails-show-3-prominent-republicans-on-clinton-payroll\/\">and provide a story arc to slot false stories in place<\/a> into the airwaves &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, what was Hillary Clinton doing not campaigning in Wisconsin?<\/p>\n<p>And frankly, it came down to James Comey&#8217;s last minute Wiener re-opening of the &#8220;case&#8221; anyways.\u00c2\u00a0 Not the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like complaining about a 15 year old photo-shopping&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo\">And the CIA says what<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So now C<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/19\/opinion\/how-republics-end.html?_r=0\">omes the age of hysterics in op ed writin<\/a>g.\u00c2\u00a0 But who can argue?\u00c2\u00a0 Certanly not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16170\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nationalreviewliberalfreakout-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"nationalreviewliberalfreakout\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Who, last I checked in the editorial purview of the magazine, really needs to have the cover for the &#8220;Conservative Freakout&#8221;, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political cartoon, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;ll be published or hung somewhere.\u00c2\u00a0 Two Face of the Batman comics.\u00c2\u00a0 On the first end he&#8217;s saying something about Birther-ism, on the second end he&#8217;s raving about the CIA hacking and this election. A false equivalence.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose the end comes up the same &#8212; if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16176,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions\/16176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}