{"id":1508,"date":"2008-11-21T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T18:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2008-11-21T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:41:07","slug":"jonah-goldberg-is-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"Jonah Goldberg is Shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah Goldberg is <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=OWU5YWE4NzdkZTE3M2RiMjA2NTMxNWVkY2IyYTc2YzI=\">a partisan hack<\/a> &#8211; and I mean that with all due respect.<\/p>\n<p>In this post today, Goldberg points out that Obama seems to be making a number of sensible appointments to major positions, none of which mark a radical change from the status quo &#8211; but all of which, from Obama&#8217;s perspective, will be improvements. You would think that Goldberg&#8217;s first reaction would be approval &#8211; as Obama is not turning out to be the radical that Goldberg had feared he would.<\/p>\n<p>But no.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg instead channels his inner imaginary radical liberal who is outraged that Obama is going back on what his imaginary liberal thought was a promise of radical change.<\/p>\n<p>He concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It will be interesting to see how long Obama&#8217;s charisma can paper over reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But what his inner imaginary liberal should have realized &#8211; and what most real liberals did realize &#8211; was that Obama was not a radical or a leftist. By change, he didn&#8217;t mean revolution.<\/p>\n<p>But Goldberg desperately wants to be right about something &#8211; reality be damned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah Goldberg is a partisan hack &#8211; and I mean that with all due respect. In this post today, Goldberg points out that Obama seems to be making a number of sensible appointments to major positions, none of which mark a radical change from the status quo &#8211; but all of which, from Obama&#8217;s perspective, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,458],"tags":[116,117,817,662],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-jonah-goldberg","tag-national-review","tag-nro","tag-the-corner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-ok","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}