{"id":42365,"date":"2014-03-12T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42365"},"modified":"2014-03-12T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:09:43","slug":"chanting-points-memo-koch-fiends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42365","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: Koch Fiends"},"content":{"rendered":"

How much reporting could conservatives save by simply referring to Berg’s Seventh Law <\/a>– “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character, humanity\u00a0or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds” – to explain “progressive” efforts to slander\/”attack” conservatives, their organizations, and their supporters?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hard to say.\u00a0 Lots.<\/p>\n

That said, it’s good to get the details.<\/p>\n

James Taranto chronicles the left’s current assault on\u00a0 the Koch Brothers <\/a>– who, along with the tiny think tank “ALEC” and the NRA are the the repository of most lefty boogeyman-mongering – and finds it a troubling variant on a standard “progressive” tactic…:<\/p>\n

We’re torn between finding this effort sinister and ridiculous, and the truth is it’s both. Alinskyite tactics were meant to be applied against the powerful by the powerless. When applied by powerful men, like Reid, who are supposed to be public servants, they take on the character of tyranny rather than rebellion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…as well as a classic case of Berg’s Seventh Law in action (<\/p>\n

No doubt the Kochs can take it, but note that his attack aimed not only at them but also at ordinary Americans who have been victimized by ObamaCare<\/a> and spoken out about it. The aim is clearly to intimidate others and thereby suppress information about ObamaCare’s failures<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not to mention make dissenting from the “progressive” narrative too painful for non-billionaires to carry on.\u00a0 See also “Joe the Plumber”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How much reporting could conservatives save by simply referring to Berg’s Seventh Law – “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character, humanity\u00a0or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds” – to explain “progressive” efforts to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,79],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-42365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-slander-files","tag-bergs-seventh-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42365","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=42365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42366,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42365\/revisions\/42366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}