{"id":2354,"date":"2008-10-19T01:51:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T05:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/real_america\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T01:51:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T05:51:23","slug":"real_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/10\/real_america\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Real&#8221; America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2008_10_12_archive.html#4934716491636084730\">Atrios<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s long been somewhat frustrating that while we all know that liberals are supposed hate America, it&#8217;s actually <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/10\/18\/real-virginia\/\">Republicans who hate Americans<\/a>. Lots of them. Anyone not of their tribe gets chucked out of the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.  I&#8217;ve had it with politicians and pundits calling people, with whom they disagree, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/17\/gop-rep-channels-mccarthy_n_135735.html\">anti-American<\/a>.&#8221;  Or talking about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxii12.com\/news\/17752384\/detail.html\">pro-America<\/a>&#8221; areas of the country.  Or saying particular parts of states are not &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/jonathanmartin\/1008\/McCain_adviser_Northern_Va_not_the_real_Virginia.html\">real<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the tired rightist tactic of dividing the electorate and portraying people in the other camp as being inferior.  I wish big media would call this crap out in a meaningful and devastating way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/10\/real_america\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Real&#8221; America\"><p>Atrios: It&#8217;s long been somewhat frustrating that while we all know that liberals are supposed hate America, it&#8217;s actually Republicans who hate Americans. Lots of them. Anyone not of their tribe gets chucked out of the country. Indeed. I&#8217;ve had it with politicians and pundits calling people, with whom they disagree, &#8220;anti-American.&#8221; Or talking about [&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-2354","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\/2354","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=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}