{"id":922,"date":"2004-11-06T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T18:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/11\/dumber_than_dumb\/"},"modified":"2004-11-06T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-06T18:20:03","slug":"dumber_than_dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/11\/dumber_than_dumb.html","title":{"rendered":"DUMBER THAN DUMB"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can Nicholas Kristof be so DUMB?<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Here’s how:
\n“Time To Get Religion,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> his
\ncolumn this morning, in which he offers the Democrats four suggestions for future success:
\n


\n

\u2022 Don’t be afraid of religion.
\u2022 Pick battles of substance, not symbolism.
\u2022 Accept
\nthat today, gun control is a nonstarter.
\u2022 Hold your nose and work with President
\nBush.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

Call me an effete-pinko-commie-atheist-liberal-antiwar idjit, but who wants that kind of
\nsuccess? Did the red-white-and-blue-religious-conservative-right-wing-Republican-neocon-hawk
\nmatadors achieve success through compromise? <\/P>
\n

And anyway, nothing the Democrats do — from bending their principles to outright
\nappeasement — will gain them an inch with Republicans, who see their election victory as a
\ndiktat<\/I> from, by, and for the people that gives them the right to rule with
\nimpunity.<\/P>Postscript:<\/B> Smarter and funnier<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> than me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can Nicholas Kristof be so DUMB? Here’s how: “Time To Get Religion,” his column this morning, in which he offers the Democrats four suggestions for future success: \u2022 Don’t be afraid of religion.\u2022 Pick battles of substance, not symbolism. \u2022 Accept that today, gun control is a nonstarter.\u2022 Hold your nose and work with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-eS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}