{"id":2127,"date":"2006-10-28T00:35:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T04:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/hell_run_out_an\/"},"modified":"2006-10-28T00:35:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T04:35:16","slug":"hell_run_out_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/hell_run_out_an\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He&#8217;ll Run Out And Help&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s <a title=\"Peggy Noonan and the rotting pundit class\" href=\"http:\/\/glenngreenwald.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/peggy-noonan-and-rotting-pundit-class.html\">smackdown of  Peggy Noonan<\/a> he digs up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/pnoonan\/?id=110004712\">this gem<\/a> of hers from 2004:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Bush is the triumph of the seemingly average American man. He&#8217;s normal. He thinks in a sort of common-sense way. He speaks the language of business and sports and politics. You know him. He&#8217;s not exotic. But if there&#8217;s a fire on the block, he&#8217;ll run out and help. He&#8217;ll help direct the rig to the right house and count the kids coming out and say, &#8220;Where&#8217;s Sally?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Running out to help.  Directing the rig to the right house.  I couldn&#8217;t come up with a more accurate way to describe Mr. Bush than that, as he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/08\/images\/20050831_p083105pm-0117jas-515h.html\">flew over New Orleans<\/a> two days after Katrina struck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/hell_run_out_an\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;He&#8217;ll Run Out And Help&#8221;\"><p>In Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s smackdown of Peggy Noonan he digs up this gem of hers from 2004: Mr. Bush is the triumph of the seemingly average American man. He&#8217;s normal. He thinks in a sort of common-sense way. He speaks the language of business and sports and politics. You know him. He&#8217;s not exotic. But if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}