{"id":64509,"date":"2017-09-15T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64509"},"modified":"2017-09-15T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:19:23","slug":"for-once-allahpundit-is-the-pollyanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64509","title":{"rendered":"For Once, Allahpundit Is The Pollyanna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some critics say Hillary’s new blame-all autobio includes a “bizarre misreading” of George Orwell’s\u00a01984. \u00a0<\/em>Among them is Allahpundit, from\u00a0<\/a>Hot Air<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are establishmentarians, there are big-government establishmentarians, and then there are people who read Orwell and see a parable about insufficient trust in authority:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the passage<\/p>\n

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I say they’re being pollyannaish.<\/p>\n

Hillary’s a lot of things – I’ll skip the hour-long session of listing them all – but she’s not stupid, and she’s not illiterate.<\/p>\n

We’ve noticed this with not a few figures on the left; they’re pretty much sure they can get away with saying anything; God knows the media will never call them on it. I’ve focused on it in particular as re Second Amendment policy – this blog has \u00a0a \u00a0large, well-populated tag documenting the Minnesota victim disarmament movement’s serial fabulism<\/a> – but we’re really just scratching the surface.<\/p>\n

My thesis: \u00a0Hillary thinks knows she can say anything she wants; the media will never check her; her supporters can’t stop jabbering about their credentials, intelligence and level of information (they watch\u00a0Rachel Maddow<\/em>, dammit!) to bother reading the damn book in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some critics say Hillary’s new blame-all autobio includes a “bizarre misreading” of George Orwell’s\u00a01984. \u00a0Among them is Allahpundit, from\u00a0Hot Air. There are establishmentarians, there are big-government establishmentarians, and then there are people who read Orwell and see a parable about insufficient trust in authority: Here’s the passage I say they’re being pollyannaish. Hillary’s a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-democrats","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64509","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=64509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64511,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64509\/revisions\/64511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}