{"id":6221,"date":"2008-07-28T12:18:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6221"},"modified":"2008-07-28T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T19:21:15","slug":"bill-kristol-be-afraid-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6221","title":{"rendered":"Bill Kristol: &#8216;Be Afraid. Please&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BillKristol_Close.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Desperation is again setting in for Bill Kristol. The headline of the neo-con&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/28\/opinion\/28kristol.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin\">column today<\/a> &#8212; he&#8217;s now shamefully employed by the <i>New York Times<\/i> &#8212; cuts directly to the chase and speaks volumes, while neatly summarizing years of the Republicans&#8217; only actual campaign agenda. All, in three words.<\/p>\n<p>The headline: &#8220;Be Afraid. Please.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There it is, in a very polite nutshell. Look for more of that &#8212; much, though likely less polite &#8212; between here and November. It&#8217;s about all they have.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of his column is largely irrelevant (as <em>he<\/em> should have become, long ago) and is yet another sad waste of precious <i>NYTimes<\/i> ink. But the admission inherent in the headline is about as telling as you&#8217;ll ever find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperation is again setting in for Bill Kristol. The headline of the neo-con&#8217;s column today &#8212; he&#8217;s now shamefully employed by the New York Times &#8212; cuts directly to the chase and speaks volumes, while neatly summarizing years of the Republicans&#8217; only actual campaign agenda. All, in three words. The headline: &#8220;Be Afraid. Please.&#8221; There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,188,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}