{"id":130,"date":"2010-04-02T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/04\/02\/liberals-letting-facts-get-in-the-way\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:49:12","slug":"liberals-letting-facts-get-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/04\/02\/liberals-letting-facts-get-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals: Letting Facts Get in the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

As certainly we all can agree by now, conservatives don\u2019t let facts get in the way of a pithy political argument.  However, liberals are so literal.  To wit:<\/p>\n

Matt Yglesias, one of the best bloggers out there, succeeds by being prolific and succinct.  But this post<\/a> illustrates in a way I\u2019m sure he didn\u2019t intend why liberals can\u2019t make a political argument.  First, of course, as was said on a recent episode of \u201cThe Good Wife\u201d about a judge, \u201cLiberals love to compromise.\u201d  Or, as E.J. Dionne has worried, that liberals are so open-minded they can\u2019t even take their own side of an argument.  In other words, they lack a good sense of certitude needed to make an case.  <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a picture of a Census ad that I think is pretty clever.<\/p>\n

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The ad can fill in the second box differently to make a case that filling out the census form is a good thing to do.  Now what\u2019s Yglesias have to say about it?<\/p>\n

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A number of people have been in touch with me about this in a way that makes me think it\u2019s worth emphasizing that this is not in fact how decisions about how many buses to buy are made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who the hell cares!?  If it gets people to turn in their census forms\u2014or vote for your candidate\u2014who cares if it\u2019s literally true!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As certainly we all can agree by now, conservatives don\u2019t let facts get in the way of a pithy political argument.  However, liberals are so literal.  To wit: Matt Yglesias, one of the best bloggers out there, succeeds by being prolific and succinct.  But this post illustrates in a way I\u2019m sure he didn\u2019t intend… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,32,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}