{"id":29040,"date":"2012-07-18T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29040"},"modified":"2012-07-18T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T19:05:08","slug":"just-plain-wrong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29040","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Just Plain Wrong&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Bai of WorldNet Daily, in the intro of a piece that tries to separate fact from self-indulgent liberal fiction in re the Citizens United case&#8217;s impact on politics.<\/p>\n<p>Libs, of course, have been telling themselves and (mostly) everyone else that Citizens United completely swept away the foundations of democracy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a matter of political strategy, this is a useful story to tell, appealing to liberals and independent voters who aren\u2019t necessarily enthusiastic about the administration but who are concerned about societal inequality, which is why President Obama has made it a rallying cry almost from the moment the Citizens United ruling was made. But if you\u2019re trying to understand what\u2019s really going on with politics and money, the accepted narrative around Citizens United is, at best, overly simplistic. And in some respects, it\u2019s just plain wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing. \u00a0And pass it on to your liberal and propaganda-addled (ptr) friends.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0Whoops &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t in WorldNet Daily. \u00a0The piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/22\/magazine\/how-much-has-citizens-united-changed-the-political-game.html?_r=4&amp;pagewanted=1&amp;hp\">appears in that noted conservative tool, the <em>NYTimes<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I regret the confusion.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2: \u00a0Bai, not Sai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Bai of WorldNet Daily, in the intro of a piece that tries to separate fact from self-indulgent liberal fiction in re the Citizens United case&#8217;s impact on politics. Libs, of course, have been telling themselves and (mostly) everyone else that Citizens United completely swept away the foundations of democracy. As a matter of political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29040","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=29040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29042,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29040\/revisions\/29042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}