{"id":1488,"date":"2007-10-22T06:12:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T11:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2007-10-22T06:21:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T11:21:26","slug":"something-to-answer-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Something To Answer For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRO <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NDBjZDZjMjVlMTE2ZmJjNDY0NjY3YmQ2YmRlNWFiN2M=\">notes the corrosive racism<\/a> in the left&#8217;s attacks on Bobby Jindal, who won the Louisiana governor&#8217;s race last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After &#8220;progressive&#8221; racists spent months trying to use his ethnicity against him, I think it&#8217;s a feather in Jindal&#8217;s cap that everyone talks about it now. Something, by the way, to remember next time you see the Left run for the moral high ground on perceived &#8220;racism&#8221; \u2014 as though it meant something to them beyond their party&#8217;s political success. It wasn&#8217;t just the Louisiana Democratic Party, but also self-styled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/10\/19\/105347\/35\">progressive<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&#038;address=155x3677\">bloggers<\/a>, writers and message-board posters who used Jindal&#8217;s race against him during this campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s nothing &#8216;progressive&#8217; about being liberal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ask Linda Chavez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRO notes the corrosive racism in the left&#8217;s attacks on Bobby Jindal, who won the Louisiana governor&#8217;s race last week: After &#8220;progressive&#8221; racists spent months trying to use his ethnicity against him, I think it&#8217;s a feather in Jindal&#8217;s cap that everyone talks about it now. Something, by the way, to remember next time you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","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=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}