{"id":2990,"date":"2006-09-19T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/and-the-nominees-are\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T22:53:33","slug":"and-the-nominees-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/and-the-nominees-are\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Nominees Are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2149332\/&#038;#asgrace\">Mickey Kaus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Andrew Sullivan has decided to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/time.blogs.com\/daily_dish\/2006\/09\/a_new_award.html\">give out a Nancy Grace Award<\/a>. Criteria (suggested by Sullivan&#8217;s readers) include &#8220;a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/time.blogs.com\/daily_dish\/2006\/09\/the_grace_award.html\">nauseating level of absolutist<\/a> <strong>self-righteousness<\/strong>,&#8221; an &#8220;unflappable self-assurance that [the nominee&#8217;s] outrage represents the true moral high ground on any issue&#8221; despite a propensity to &#8220;<strong>flip flop<\/strong>&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and a habit of &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/time.blogs.com\/daily_dish\/2006\/09\/the_grace_award_1.html\">excessive <strong>personal attacks<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; [Emphasis added]&#8230; You mean like righteously bullying anyone who fails to support a war in Iraq, then turning around and righteously attacking the people who are prosecuting it? &#8230; Can you think of any nominees? I&#8217;m stumped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/sullivan-delenda-est\/\">Me, on why merely ignoring Sullivan is not an option<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus: Andrew Sullivan has decided to give out a Nancy Grace Award. Criteria (suggested by Sullivan&#8217;s readers) include &#8220;a nauseating level of absolutist self-righteousness,&#8221; an &#8220;unflappable self-assurance that [the nominee&#8217;s] outrage represents the true moral high ground on any issue&#8221; despite a propensity to &#8220;flip flop&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and a habit of &#8220;excessive personal attacks.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}