{"id":2895,"date":"2008-09-02T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/02\/trying-to-be-better-than-that\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T08:42:34","slug":"trying-to-be-better-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/02\/trying-to-be-better-than-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Be Better Than That"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody’s favorite local troll left a comment in yesterday’s links dump<\/a> about the scandal surrounding Sarah Palin’s daughter. It was remarkably coherent for an “Uncle Al” post, and actually bordered on funny.<\/p>\n

If you look at it now, though, you’ll find it’s undergone lossy compression. I dithered about this for a while, and then decided that I find the whole topic sufficiently loathesome that I’m not going to support talking about it in any way.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m aware that, were she a Democrat, this news would’ve given Rush Limbaugh a stiffy visible from space, and the wingnut-o-sphere would be so abuzz that it would threaten to bring down the entire Internet. But part of the point of opposing wingnuts is to be better than that<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I won’t say I’m not conflicted– I’ve been one of the people who complain that the Democrats don’t do enough to fight back against the Republican sleaze machine, and making hay of people’s family crises is probably an inevitable result of a certain kind of committment to fighting back. But you know what? That’s not my committment, and I don’t have to be a part of it, even in a passive way– that’s why I don’t read Daily Kos, and that’s why I won’t let cheap shots about Palin’s family stand uncompressed, any more than I would cheap shots at the Obama or Biden families.<\/p>\n

I don’t know that we are<\/strong> better than that, but we should be<\/strong> better than that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everybody’s favorite local troll left a comment in yesterday’s links dump about the scandal surrounding Sarah Palin’s daughter. It was remarkably coherent for an “Uncle Al” post, and actually bordered on funny. If you look at it now, though, you’ll find it’s undergone lossy compression. I dithered about this for a while, and then decided… Continue reading Trying to Be Better Than That<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}