{"id":400,"date":"2008-04-14T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2008-04-14T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T18:31:59","slug":"on-bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"On &#8220;Bitter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/04\/bittergate-wrig.html\">Andrew Sullivan on &#8220;Bittergate&#8221; and &#8220;Wrightgate&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interestingly, the two incidents that Clinton pounced on damaged both Clinton and Obama <em>equally<\/em> &#8211; and their main effect has been to solidify Republicans behind McCain. And this makes sense: the kind of political-cultural warfare this represents is pure Rovism. It&#8217;s designed to help Republicans. Which may be all that the Clintons will accomplish with this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ezra Klein writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=04&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=back_to_the_campaign\">this latest &#8220;bitter&#8221; controversy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;this is why I don&#8217;t like writing about the campaign. It&#8217;s full of hollow scandals and ignored travesties. But you have to cover the hollow scandals, because they&#8217;re are blown up until they&#8217;re definitional in the campaign. And that leaves me writing about high-profile non-events in a way that helps cement their importance, even if I&#8217;m writing to deride their legitimacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan on &#8220;Bittergate&#8221; and &#8220;Wrightgate&#8221;: Interestingly, the two incidents that Clinton pounced on damaged both Clinton and Obama equally &#8211; and their main effect has been to solidify Republicans behind McCain. And this makes sense: the kind of political-cultural warfare this represents is pure Rovism. It&#8217;s designed to help Republicans. Which may be all [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,6,4,43],"tags":[58,91,93,92],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","category-the-clintons","tag-andrew-sullivan","tag-bitter","tag-ezra-klein","tag-jeremiah-wright"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-6s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}