{"id":10231,"date":"2010-04-20T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10231"},"modified":"2010-04-20T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:23:07","slug":"dont-change-the-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10231","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Change The Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tea Parties rallied to protest, and call attention to, the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial policies (which, to be fare, are <\/em>in a few instances continuations of Bush-era policies, only accelerated many times over).<\/p>\n

The response:\u00a0 “some of you might get violent!”<\/p>\n

Don’t change the subject.\u00a0 We were talking about the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial policies.<\/p>\n

If I’m talking with you, or commenting on your blog, about the the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial policies, and you start babbling about “the avalanche of violence”, I’m not even going to take time out to remind you that every single act of actual, as opposed to threatened, violence this past year has been committed by a leftist <\/em>of one kind or another.\u00a0 Every single one.\u00a0 No exceptions.<\/p>\n

No.\u00a0 I’m just going to tell you “don’t change the subject”.<\/p>\n

And if I’m talking with Bill Clinton (unlikely as that may be) about the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial policies, and he starts prattling about Oklahoma City, I will tell him “don’t change the subject”, too.<\/p>\n

Changing the subject when you’re backed into a corner in a debate is the mark of a poor debater or a weasel lawyer.<\/p>\n

Changing the subject to defame the person who is beating you in an argument – and we are beating you, Democrats, nationwide, and we’re going to beat you like cheap brisket this November – is the mark of the poor debater whose got everyone’s worst interests at heart.<\/p>\n

So don’t change the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tea Parties rallied to protest, and call attention to, the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial policies (which, to be fare, are in a few instances continuations of Bush-era policies, only accelerated many times over). The response:\u00a0 “some of you might get violent!” Don’t change the subject.\u00a0 We were talking about the Obama Administration’s ruinous financial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10233,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions\/10233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}