{"id":262,"date":"2004-06-23T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=262"},"modified":"2004-06-23T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:11:32","slug":"monster-raving-looney-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Monster Raving Looney Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens writes a <a href=\" http:\/\/politics.slate.msn.com\/id\/2102723\/\">scathing denunciation<\/a> of Michael Moore&#8217;s <i>Farenheit 9\/11<\/i> in <i>Slate<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to       promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe        this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a      discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To      describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too        obvious. Fahrenheit 9\/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity,      crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a      spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a      demonstration of &#8220;dissenting&#8221; bravery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\">Power Line<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens writes a scathing denunciation of Michael Moore&#8217;s Farenheit 9\/11 in Slate: To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monster Raving Looney Party&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}