{"id":74577,"date":"2020-07-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74577"},"modified":"2020-07-04T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T21:41:00","slug":"divisive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74577","title":{"rendered":"Divisive!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Paper of Walter Duranty, the one that published the deeply ahistorical, revisionistic and nothing-but-inflammatory &#8220;1629 Project&#8221;, the one that published Paul Krugman&#8217;s innumerate claims that &#8220;blue&#8221; America bankrolls &#8220;red&#8221; America, which has been openly advocating &#8220;progressive&#8221; ideals in its editorial pages since I was in high school, which has been one of the primary PR agents for the left in America&#8217;s cultural cold civil war, the one that has not only been a &#8220;progressive&#8221; flak for generations but whose young, &#8220;woke&#8221; red guard faction has moved beyond shaping the informational battlefield to actively purity-testing the left-leaning editorial staff to drive it further to the cultural and political left&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-coronavirus-mount-rushmore.html?smid=fb-share&amp;fbclid=IwAR1rBr5t2cY3lvel4GD3bqQAG5C1sKUm8PtEQK1eQb7kH-YcPxxXMjr2ogg\">has the victorian vapours about &#8220;cultural divisiveness&#8221;<\/a> over Trump&#8217;s weekend speech at Mount Rushmore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch for yourself.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump&#039;s full speech at Mount Rushmore | USA TODAY\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXD4zPY4Ai0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing that I could find that was remotely &#8220;divisive&#8221; was exhortation about three minutes in stating that Mount Rushmore would never be desecrated &#8211; which, I imagine, some post-modern academics find profoundly hostile.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe the bit around 5:10 here he said the rights of man will never be taken away.  That has got to make Tim Walz nervous.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the part around 6:10, where he points out that Americans aren&#8217;t &#8220;weak and submissive&#8221; in facing the war on American culture, but will in fact prevail.   That&#8217;s a pretty clear and direct threat to&#8230;someone.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too bad, so sad.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70364\">Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law<\/a> is iron-clad and absolute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paper of Walter Duranty, the one that published the deeply ahistorical, revisionistic and nothing-but-inflammatory &#8220;1629 Project&#8221;, the one that published Paul Krugman&#8217;s innumerate claims that &#8220;blue&#8221; America bankrolls &#8220;red&#8221; America, which has been openly advocating &#8220;progressive&#8221; ideals in its editorial pages since I was in high school, which has been one of the primary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,13,367,368],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-74577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-republicans","category-trump","category-trump-derangement","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74577","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=74577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74590,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74577\/revisions\/74590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}