{"id":651,"date":"2005-05-23T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T23:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=651"},"modified":"2005-05-23T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T23:23:46","slug":"on-moral-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/05\/23\/on-moral-values\/","title":{"rendered":"On Moral Values"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>A google news search for Dean’s Sunday Meet the Press appearance shows a weird tilt in news items. Here are the news sourches for the front page:<\/p>\n

NewsMax.com (Right-wing)
\nMSNBC (they, naturally, have the trascript.)
\nKansas City Star
\nMen’s News Daily (Right-wing)
\nGOP-USA (I believe this is where Jeff Gannon worked, when all is said and done. Right wing.)
\nThe Moderate Voice. (“Centrist”, an annoying designation meaning always calibrating your politics to a supposed “center”.)
\nWashington Times (Right-wing, though it’s an interesting article<\/a>.)
\nMedia Matters for America. (After 4 pages, we have a left-wing source.)
\nRed State (Right wing)<\/p>\n

At any rate… Evidentally Dean defended his “moral values”, and disconcertingly wrapped up into that phrase religious bonafides<\/i> against a charge that his supporters are, on the whole, more secular and less church-going than the public at large. A charge which, by the way, is largely true. For his part, I have no clue the depth of Dean’s religious convictions. A Democrat can get farther in the Party Primaries than a Republican — who, by necessity, must profess Jesus as the greatest Philosopher.<\/p>\n

Bush recently made a political appearance \/ commencement speech at Calvin College in a college town in Michigan. Prompting some pundits to ask “Why’d he choose that college?” — a bit more liberal than Bush’s bread and butter — affiliated with Calvinism, best known to many as half the duo of the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” — is Bush trying to reach out beyond ultra-conservative Evangelicals in his Christian Crusade?<\/p>\n

The answer to that question is: yes. And Michigan is home to a currently poll-weary Democratic Governor. And a vulnerable Democratic Senator. And a razor-thin Democratic to Kerry vote. And a rust-beltian economic \/ cultural mix. And those mid-west snow-belt states are key to Republican’s hopes of Cultural Expansion (the “Coastal Elites” badge is a bit scarred by the existence of that trio of Canadian-border hugging northern tier states — Illinois appears to be too far gone, but Minnesota and Michigan aren’t quiet as shaky).<\/p>\n

So, you rebrand Christianity to rebrand Michigan. Funny that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A google news search for Dean’s Sunday Meet the Press appearance shows a weird tilt in news items. Here are the news sourches for the front page: NewsMax.com (Right-wing) MSNBC (they, naturally, have the trascript.) Kansas City Star Men’s News Daily (Right-wing) GOP-USA (I believe this is where Jeff Gannon worked, when all is said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}