{"id":66999,"date":"2018-06-01T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66999"},"modified":"2018-06-01T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:37:54","slug":"bergs-seventh-law-in-the-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66999","title":{"rendered":"Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law In The Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=5033\">Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law<\/a>: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Remember during the campaign, when Donald &#8220;The Donald&#8221; Trump&#8217;s history of sexist japes, braggadocio and womanizing went from being a Hollywood inside joke to grist for a desperate Clinton campaign to dig out of a hole?<\/p>\n<p>Of course you do.\u00a0 You couldn&#8217;t escape it.<\/p>\n<p>And as I saw that unfolding in Hillary&#8217;s attempt to claw her way into office, I kept thinking;\u00a0 &#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s about drawing attention away from Bill and her history of committing and abetting unspeakable horrors upon women to the winking and chuckling of their buddies in high lefty places&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u00a0 also thought &#8220;it&#8217;s gotta be more than this&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And with the juxtaposition of Roseanne Barr (whose show was tanked within a day of her racist jape on Twitter) and Samantha Bee (who will be a\u00a0<em>cause cel\u00e9bre\u00a0<\/em>on the left, just you watch), it became clear; the borg that is Big Left just doesn&#8217;t think their own (the &#8220;elite&#8221; at the top of the prog pile &#8211; the Clintons, Emmanuels, Feinsteins, Waterses and the like) can be guilty of\u00a0<em>anything.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Case in point:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ivanka legitimized trump by being pretty &amp; seeming sane, &amp; libs created a (kinda sexist) Rapunzel narrative that she was \u2018trapped\u2019. She\u2019s from a crime family, she married into a crime family, she\u2019s a grown up. She will do as much damage as she can get away with. Sam was too kind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\u2014 Joss Whedon (@joss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joss\/status\/1002311767341481984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 201<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you have a movement whose &#8220;elite&#8221; (koff koff) takes private jets halfway around the world to conferences where they tell everyone else to move into apartments and take transit? That sends its kids to private academies but hectors you for putting yours in a charter school? That parks its money in tax shelters run by rooms full of tax lawyers and tells you you&#8217;re unpatriotic for wanting your taxes lowered?<\/p>\n<p>Who tell you &#8220;Misogyny is bad&#8221; while excusing&#8230;ugly stupid misogyny (in terms so patronizing and sexist that they&#8217;d have gotten any Republican politican exiled to rural Alaska)?<\/p>\n<p>I guess I can see why they deflect to &#8220;Racism&#8221; when talking about why Trump won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law: &#8220;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.&#8221; Remember during the campaign, when Donald &#8220;The Donald&#8221; Trump&#8217;s history of sexist japes, braggadocio and womanizing went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,326,27,18],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-66999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-big-alt-media","category-men-and-women","category-pc","tag-bergs-seventh-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66999","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=66999"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67005,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66999\/revisions\/67005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}