{"id":917,"date":"2003-11-25T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T18:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-civility-double-standard\/"},"modified":"2003-11-25T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T18:50:55","slug":"the-civility-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-civility-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Civility Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Op-Ed Columnist: The Uncivil War\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/25\/opinion\/25KRUG.html?th\">Op-Ed Columnist: The Uncivil War<\/a> By PAUL KRUGMAN, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>[I]t was predictable that the administration and its allies, no longer very successful at claiming that questioning the president is unpatriotic, would use appeals to good manners as a way to silence critics. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Smart conservatives admit that their own side was a bit rude during the Clinton years. But now, they say, they&#8217;ve learned better, and <b>it&#8217;s those angry liberals who have a problem<\/b>. The reality, however, is that they can only convince themselves that liberals have an anger problem by applying <b>a double standard<\/b>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More important, the Bush administration \u2014 which likes to portray itself as the inheritor of Reagan-like optimism \u2014 actually has <b>a Nixonian habit of demonizing its opponents<\/b>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All this fuss about civility, then, is an attempt to <b>bully<\/b> critics into unilaterally disarming \u2014 into being demure and respectful of the president, even while his campaign chairman declares that the 2004 election will be a choice &#8220;between victory in Iraq and insecurity in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-Ed Columnist: The Uncivil War By PAUL KRUGMAN, NYTimes [I]t was predictable that the administration and its allies, no longer very successful at claiming that questioning the president is unpatriotic, would use appeals to good manners as a way to silence critics. &#8230; Smart conservatives admit that their own side was a bit rude during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-civility-double-standard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Civility Double Standard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}