{"id":1557,"date":"2004-02-22T22:20:16","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/22\/liberals_the_an\/"},"modified":"2004-02-22T22:20:16","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T03:20:16","slug":"liberals_the_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/22\/liberals_the_an\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals:  The Anti-Christs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an AP <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=536&#038;ncid=536&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/ap\/20040222\/ap_on_el_pr\/angry_at_bush\">story<\/a> about the level of anger at Bush by Democrats (and 10% of Republicans), the following appears:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John McAdams, a political scientist at Marquette University, said resentment of Bush is particularly strong among liberals who already hold three things against him: &#8220;First, he&#8217;s a conservative. Second, he&#8217;s a Christian. And third, he&#8217;s a Texan. When you add all of those things up, that invokes pretty much every symbol of the cultural wars.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s particularly galling when somebody who mangles his syntax and doesn&#8217;t pronounce words extremely well and is from Texas beats you,&#8221; McAdams added. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t know who the hell McAdams is, but such a patronizing, bigoted characterization is beyond the pale.  So liberals are the anti-Christ and hate Texans?  It\u2019s particularly galling when stupid pundits mangle their 15 minutes of fame.  Google the guy.  A lot of people think he\u2019s nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an AP story about the level of anger at Bush by Democrats (and 10% of Republicans), the following appears: John McAdams, a political scientist at Marquette University, said resentment of Bush is particularly strong among liberals who already hold three things against him: &#8220;First, he&#8217;s a conservative. Second, he&#8217;s a Christian. And third, he&#8217;s&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/22\/liberals_the_an\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557"}],"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=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}