{"id":3170,"date":"2008-08-27T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T16:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2008-08-27T07:56:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T12:56:49","slug":"cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Dissonance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Malkin <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/08\/27\/what-if-they-held-a-riot-and-no-one-came\/\">noticed something<\/a> that I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/005309.html\">pointing out<\/a> for years and years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And while Democrat Party chair Howard Dean excoriates the Republican Party as the \u201cwhite\u201d party, I saw only one-non-white agitator among the pro-abortion gaggle. (This goes for the rest of the Recreate \u201868 populace, too. It\u2019s as pale and colorless as a Colorado snowfall.) Across the street from the Planned Parenthood event, however, were many incensed black- and brown-skinned moms. Incensed, that is, that an abortion mill had been built right across from the park where their children practice football and swing on the playground set.<\/p>\n<p>One of the moms, Priscilla said bluntly: \u201cI don\u2019t want a f**king abortion clinic in my neighborhood!\u201d A Hispanic mother added: \u201cIt\u2019s against the Catholic Church.\u201d (Are you listening, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi?) When asked about her views on abortion, another black mother of three I spoke to while sitting in her minivan told me simply: \u201cI don\u2019t believe in it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Education, free enterprise and &#8211; eventually &#8211; social issues like abortion are going to be the ones that drive the Dems up on the rocks, especially with minority and immigrant voters.  It won&#8217;t scupper them <em>this <\/em>election; it might take a generation.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;ll happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Malkin noticed something that I&#8217;ve been pointing out for years and years: And while Democrat Party chair Howard Dean excoriates the Republican Party as the \u201cwhite\u201d party, I saw only one-non-white agitator among the pro-abortion gaggle. (This goes for the rest of the Recreate \u201868 populace, too. It\u2019s as pale and colorless as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-culture-war","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","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=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}