{"id":56575,"date":"2015-12-09T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56575"},"modified":"2015-12-08T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T15:16:11","slug":"in-the-land-of-the-blind-the-one-eyed-man-is-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56575","title":{"rendered":"In The Land Of The Blind, The One-Eyed Man Is King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Bob Collins&#8217; &#8220;Newscut&#8221; blog at MPR, in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mprnews.org\/newscut\/2015\/12\/jon-stewart-tries-the-impossible-shaming-congress\/\">a story<\/a> about the congressional donnybrook over extending healthcare benefits to first responders and construction workers from Ground Zero:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With that brick, Jon Stewart showed again last night why his retirement has created such a vacuum of moral authority in the national dialogue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that tell us so much about why this country is in the state it&#8217;s in?<\/p>\n<p>One side gets (and, with deep imperfections, practices) its &#8220;moral authority&#8221; from a long train of the best of human thought, tracing back from Friedman and Hayek and John Paul II, back through the Declaration of Independence and\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Rights of Man<\/em>,\u00a0all the way back to the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n<p>The other? \u00a0From standup comic on a TV show conceived as the &#8220;progressive&#8221; establishment&#8217;s\u00a0answer to conservative talk radio hegemony, featuring a talented standup comic with a gift for snarky faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bob Collins&#8217; &#8220;Newscut&#8221; blog at MPR, in a story about the congressional donnybrook over extending healthcare benefits to first responders and construction workers from Ground Zero: With that brick, Jon Stewart showed again last night why his retirement has created such a vacuum of moral authority in the national dialogue. Doesn&#8217;t that tell us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575","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=56575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56578,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575\/revisions\/56578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}