{"id":12273,"date":"2010-07-26T12:55:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12273"},"modified":"2010-07-26T13:32:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T18:32:24","slug":"our-deep-thoughtful-betters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12273","title":{"rendered":"Our Deep, Thoughtful Betters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In going through the Daily Caller&#8217;s yeoman work in releasing the Journolist archives, I&#8217;m struck by nothing so much as what a bunch of intellectual lightweights the &#8220;elite&#8221; media are.<\/p>\n<p>I read all fifteen pages of the list&#8217;s exchange regarding Sarah Palin and the birth of Trig &#8211; right at the beginning of the Trigger conspiracy theory &#8211; and was appalled by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How very very bad at analysis &#8211; as in, mathematical and statistical analysis &#8211; these people are.<\/li>\n<li>How very, very hard the women in the discussion &#8211; especially the few older ones who&#8217;d managed to justify having children &#8211; had to work to try to convince the rest of the participants that they were being hypocritical in attacking Palin&#8217;s (ostensible?) choice to fly back to Alaska for Trig&#8217;s birth<\/li>\n<li>How very, very difficult it seemed for some of the participants to square their &#8220;feminism&#8221; and &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; rhetoric with the idea that Sarah Palin was qualified to choose when and where to have the baby<\/li>\n<li>What a very, very trite group of people they are.\u00a0 Bob Mackey on who, and why, McCain should have chosen someone else for Vice President: &#8220;Libermann [sic]\u00a0would have been a better choice from that perspective. At least he has experience and can find Eastern Market for Sunday brunch.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s right; because the VP is only one omelet away from the presidency?\u00a0 Knowing DC&#8217;s social circles is the dispositive criterion for a potential President?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the one hand, it&#8217;s depressing.\u00a0 On the other &#8211; the idea that the level of &#8220;intellect&#8221; among the left&#8217;s &#8220;elites&#8221; is so very, very&#8230;er, intellectually attainable is a bit of a kick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In going through the Daily Caller&#8217;s yeoman work in releasing the Journolist archives, I&#8217;m struck by nothing so much as what a bunch of intellectual lightweights the &#8220;elite&#8221; media are. I read all fifteen pages of the list&#8217;s exchange regarding Sarah Palin and the birth of Trig &#8211; right at the beginning of the Trigger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273","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=12273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12274,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions\/12274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}