{"id":2871,"date":"2008-07-15T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2008-07-15T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:28:17","slug":"to-the-ghouls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2871","title":{"rendered":"To The Ghouls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve avoided the suppurating mass of leftybloggers and commentators that have reacted disgracefully to the death of Tony Snow.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t commented on this blog because my only reaction to such moral retardation &#8211; depressed disgust &#8211; doesn&#8217;t translate to print well.<\/p>\n<p>Patterico <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2008\/07\/14\/oreilly-blasts-ap-and-la-times-over-attacks-on-tony-snow-while-howard-kurtz-says-attacks-what-attacks\/\">notes <\/a>that there <em>is <\/em>one guy who does this sort of thing very well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I stopped watching Bill O\u2019Reilly a long time ago, but he\u2019s good for one thing: righteously laying into someone with passion and anger. When there are goons who laugh about people\u2019s deaths \u2014 whether they are Ted Rall, or commenters at the <em>L.A. Times<\/em> web site (posting with the permission of comment moderators) \u2014 you need someone with O\u2019Reilly\u2019s attitude to take them to task.<\/p>\n<p>Well done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only seen O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s show maybe three times (barring the odd clip that pops up here and there).\u00a0 Don&#8217;t care much for him, most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;well, just <a href=\"http:\/\/en.sevenload.com\/videos\/Q6RnV9d-Or-snow\">watch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve avoided the suppurating mass of leftybloggers and commentators that have reacted disgracefully to the death of Tony Snow.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t commented on this blog because my only reaction to such moral retardation &#8211; depressed disgust &#8211; doesn&#8217;t translate to print well. Patterico notes that there is one guy who does this sort of thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","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=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}