{"id":2130,"date":"2006-11-03T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T14:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/dick_morris_exp\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T14:19:13","slug":"dick_morris_exp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/11\/dick_morris_exp\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Morris, Expert Pundit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald goes way back in the time machine (one month) and discovers that one of Dick Moris&#8217; election predictions <a href=\"http:\/\/glenngreenwald.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/dick-morris-symbol-of-our-brilliant.html\">was completely wrong<\/a>.  <em>Very<\/em> surprising.  I remember when the alleged liquid bomber threat was uncovered, Morris said <em>that<\/em> event would completely reshape the mid-terms in the Republicans&#8217; favor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Punditry and &#8220;analysis&#8221; of this type really is the backbone of American political dialogue. Most of the people who have been anointed as our mainstream pundits and experts know nothing. The better ones do nothing but mindlessly recite ossified, thoughtless conventional wisdom that they exchange with one another, while most of them are driven by all sorts of personal agendas that cause them to propagandistically spout their own desires and beliefs masquerading as political analysis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m at the point where if I hear Morris say something, I suspect the opposite will likely happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/11\/dick_morris_exp\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Dick Morris, Expert Pundit\"><p>Glenn Greenwald goes way back in the time machine (one month) and discovers that one of Dick Moris&#8217; election predictions was completely wrong. Very surprising. I remember when the alleged liquid bomber threat was uncovered, Morris said that event would completely reshape the mid-terms in the Republicans&#8217; favor. Punditry and &#8220;analysis&#8221; of this type really [&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-2130","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\/2130","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=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}