{"id":2924,"date":"2008-09-13T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T10:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/13\/fred-clark-explains-it-all\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T10:46:46","slug":"fred-clark-explains-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/13\/fred-clark-explains-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Clark Explains It All"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, at dinner, I made my usual complaint that Slacktivist<\/a> doesn’t get enough attention. Kate expressed some doubts, because he certainly seems to have a large number of readers and commenters.<\/p>\n

The problem is, it’s not read by the people who really need to be reading it, and today provides an excellent example. Steve Benen at the new and prolific Washington Monthly is mystified by Sarah Palin<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Let’s not play games. Yes, there have been a variety of foreign policy maxims dubbed the “Bush Doctrine” over the years. If Sarah Palin heard the question and said, “Which one?” I would have gladly accepted that as a perfectly legitimate response. Indeed, if she’d answered the question under the assumption Gibson was asking about a different doctrine, that would have been fine, too. Hell, if Palin could have explained the differences between some of the various concepts that have been given the label, she would have shut up her detractors for a very long while.<\/p>\n

But none of that happened. You can watch the video. She said she perceived the Bush Doctrine as the president’s “worldview,” which really doesn’t make any sense at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If he were reading Slacktivist, as all thinking people ought to do, he would’ve known the answer, because Fred Clark explained the whole “worldview” thing<\/a>, eight hours earlier.<\/p>\n

Read Fred Clark, people. His blog has the absolute best writing and reporting that you will find on religion and politics in America, by several orders of magnitude.<\/p>\n

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(I’m going through my feeds and catching up on the world post-conference, which is probably a mistake. Blasting through several days worth of political coverage is sort of like belly-flopping into a sewer…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back, at dinner, I made my usual complaint that Slacktivist doesn’t get enough attention. Kate expressed some doubts, because he certainly seems to have a large number of readers and commenters. The problem is, it’s not read by the people who really need to be reading it, and today provides an excellent example.… Continue reading Fred Clark Explains It All<\/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":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","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=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}