{"id":3650,"date":"2011-02-07T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/hysteria-is-not-a-sign-of-health-could-apply-to-many-frightened-angry-conservatives\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:34:00","slug":"hysteria-is-not-a-sign-of-health-could-apply-to-many-frightened-angry-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/hysteria-is-not-a-sign-of-health-could-apply-to-many-frightened-angry-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Hysteria is not a sign of health&rdquo; could apply to many frightened &amp; angry conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following quote, slamming Beck, is not from a flaming progressive. It is from the immoderate Bill Kristol, no stranger to loony-conservatism. It\u2019s good to see some conservatives stand up to the extremists, instead of exploiting them. (Pallin\u2122 anyone? Someone should trademark Reagan\u2122 to stop people from using his name. So long as <em>Raygun<\/em> stays in the public domain.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>[H]ysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society<\/strong>. He\u2019s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/06\/kristol-beck-egypt\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb Bill Kristol Slams Conservative \u2018Hysteria\u2019 On Egypt, Calls Out Beck\u2019s Delusional \u2018Caliphate\u2019 Theory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following quote, slamming Beck, is not from a flaming progressive. It is from the immoderate Bill Kristol, no stranger to loony-conservatism. It\u2019s good to see some conservatives stand up to the extremists, instead of exploiting them. (Pallin\u2122 anyone? Someone should trademark Reagan\u2122 to stop people from using his name. So long as Raygun stays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/hysteria-is-not-a-sign-of-health-could-apply-to-many-frightened-angry-conservatives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;Hysteria is not a sign of health&rdquo; could apply to many frightened &amp; angry conservatives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}