{"id":7861,"date":"2011-04-01T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2011-04-01T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T20:52:15","slug":"far-ultra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/04\/01\/far-ultra\/","title":{"rendered":"Far Ultra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought of the day &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Skipping past a Bill O&#8217;Reilly &#8220;Talking Points&#8221; segment, and passing by the use of the phrase &#8220;Now, Talking Points Memos believes that&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; O&#8217;reilly leads off with a poll.<\/p>\n<p><em>A new Pew poll out Tuesday says more Americans support the Libyan action than  oppose: 47 percent for it; 36 percent against.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The numbers float there without any context.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s not really that good numbers a picture for Obama &#8212; it&#8217;s in this gray zone of &#8220;Approval \/ Disapproval&#8221; for the psychology of &#8220;military intervention approval&#8221; and all baggage that comes with that, shows a number more or less ready to jump on board and off board , and this shows with his low approval rating.<br \/>\nOr so goes my explanation analysis.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, better to say &#8220;Skull \/ Bones holds that &#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little annoying for a pundit to just throw out poll numbers.\u00c2\u00a0 But what I&#8217;m struck by is this phrase.<\/p>\n<p><em>But no matter what side you&#8217;re on, the fog coming from the far left is simply  staggering.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Far Left&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Who is the &#8220;Far Left&#8221;?\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently Representative Anthony Weiner.\u00c2\u00a0 AND, of course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>And then there&#8217;s MSNBC, the uber-liberal anti-war network. Not anymore.  Listen to this comparison of Obama and Bush.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On to clip of Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\n<p>Within the framework of American politics, if someone throws out the phrase &#8220;far left&#8221; &#8220;Ultra- liberal anti-war&#8221;, I&#8217;d think&#8230; Code Pink, perhaps. \u00c2\u00a0 Normon Solomon?\u00c2\u00a0 But if we define a congress-man from New York as &#8220;Far Left&#8221;, I want to know &#8212; who can O&#8217;Reilly pass off with &#8220;Left&#8221; and &#8220;liberal&#8221; without the adjectives &#8220;Far&#8221; and &#8220;Ultra&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought of the day &#8230; Skipping past a Bill O&#8217;Reilly &#8220;Talking Points&#8221; segment, and passing by the use of the phrase &#8220;Now, Talking Points Memos believes that&#8230;&#8221; &#8230; O&#8217;reilly leads off with a poll. A new Pew poll out Tuesday says more Americans support the Libyan action than oppose: 47 percent for it; 36 percent [&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-7861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861","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=7861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7863,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions\/7863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}