{"id":2075,"date":"2008-11-02T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2008-11-02T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:46:35","slug":"tales-from-the-book-of-virtuecontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/2075","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Book Of Virtue&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Talking Points Memo&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"blog_title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/241835.php\">Gettin&#8217; Sad<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Nutball Congressman Chris Cannon (R-UT) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article5063279.ece\">tried to hire<\/a> an Oxford don to use his special computer program to prove that Obama&#8217;s memoir was actually written by Bill Ayers. The program &quot;can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.&quot; Apparently, he got cold feet after the he learned that the Oxford academic, Dr Peter Millican, would release the results publicly no matter what they showed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No sense in letting the voters know something if it isn&#8217;t something you want them to know. &nbsp; The soul of a political movement isn&#8217;t the faces at the top of the ticket, or the rhetoric of its intellectuals.&nbsp; Its soul, its heart, resides in all the people who do its day-to-day grunt work.&nbsp; The grass roots.&nbsp; The rank and file.&nbsp; The True Believers.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not the headline grabbing crimes that reveal the character of an ugly movement&#8230;it&#8217;s in all the little moments of casual mendacity by its grass roots.&nbsp; There is where the people are.&nbsp; There is where the movement is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Talking Points Memo&#8230; Gettin&#8217; Sad Nutball Congressman Chris Cannon (R-UT) tried to hire an Oxford don to use his special computer program to prove that Obama&#8217;s memoir was actually written by Bill Ayers. The program &quot;can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.&quot; Apparently, he got cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[21,19,46,6],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-jackass-chronicles","tag-the-kultar-kampf","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}