{"id":7563,"date":"2010-07-29T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2010-07-29T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T18:29:26","slug":"dont-use-all-your-well-learned-politesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/dont-use-all-your-well-learned-politesse\/","title":{"rendered":"(Don’t) Use All Your Well-Learned Politesse"},"content":{"rendered":"

And to keep the<\/a> theme<\/a> going, I urge you to read these posts on D.C. insider, universal expert, and Keynesian killbot Matthew Yglesias by Charles Davis<\/a> and IOZ<\/a>. We need more of this \u00e2\u20ac\u201c more undermining of the\u00c2\u00a0 we’re-all-friends-here centrist atmosphere that contributed to so many of the disasters<\/a> we look upon today. Now, there’s no use trying to collect scalps, because as the case of Dave Weigel, the Lane Kiffin<\/a> of Washington punditry, demonstrates, once they’re in the establishment, they’re in to stay. But it can’t hurt to knock these best and brightest down a few notches in the estimation of their readers (and themselves \u00e2\u20ac\u201c note that the first response<\/a> to IOZ’s post is by a wounded Yglesias). I’m not saying that anyone should grab an establishment journo’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window, take a snapshot of the bleeding mess, and send it out in a Christmas card to let the establishment know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear<\/a>, but we should certainly rebut their BS at every turn. And don’t be polite about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And to keep the theme going, I urge you to read these posts on D.C. insider, universal expert, and Keynesian killbot Matthew Yglesias by Charles Davis and IOZ. We need more of this \u00e2\u20ac\u201c more undermining of the\u00c2\u00a0 we’re-all-friends-here centrist atmosphere that contributed to so many of the disasters we look upon today. Now, there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[38],"tags":[694,233,243,241,242],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-afghanistan","tag-dave-weigel","tag-establishment","tag-matthew-yglesias","tag-militant-center"],"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\/7563","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=7563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7565,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions\/7565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}