{"id":2347,"date":"2009-03-10T10:14:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T15:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2009-03-09T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T03:19:20","slug":"obama-on-the-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"Obama on the Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just peeved me &#8211; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/08\/us\/politics\/08obama.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all\">Obama&#8217;s interview with the <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/08\/us\/politics\/08obama.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0over the weekend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even so, [Obama] said he did not find blogs to be reliable, citing the economy as one example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the reason we don\u2019t spend a lot of time looking at blogs,\u201d he said, \u201cis because if you haven\u2019t looked at it very carefully, then you may be under the impression that somehow there\u2019s a clean answer one way or another \u2014 well, you just\u00a0nationalize\u00a0all the banks, or you just leave them alone and they\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s just a stupid thing to say &#8211; not only because he&#8217;s gratuitiously insulting many people who worked hard for him during his campaign &#8211; including me &#8211; but it makes him look like an idiot technologically. The problems isn&#8217;t &#8220;blogs&#8221; &#8211; and in fact, the substance of his criticism probably applies best to cable talk shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just peeved me &#8211; from Obama&#8217;s interview with the New York Times\u00a0over the weekend: Even so, [Obama] said he did not find blogs to be reliable, citing the economy as one example. \u201cPart of the reason we don\u2019t spend a lot of time looking at blogs,\u201d he said, \u201cis because if you haven\u2019t looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143,47,458,7],"tags":[1501],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-criticism","category-the-opinionsphere","category-the-web","tag-blogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-BR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","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=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}