{"id":7182,"date":"2015-05-06T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/06\/invective\/"},"modified":"2015-05-06T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:28:02","slug":"invective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/06\/invective\/","title":{"rendered":"Invective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Michael Medved uncorked a good one yesterday when he referred to the ACLU as the <em>American Criminal Liars Union<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">That&#39;s pretty harsh, but then the ACLU has shown itself on numerous occasions to be a contemptible bunch of leftist <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/09\/shysters-of-the-aclu-at-it-again.html\" target=\"_self\">shysters<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">What justifies the use of invective? The fact that we are in a war.&#0160; Why are we in a war?&#0160; Because there is no longer the common ground upon which to resolve differences.&#0160; And what has brought us to this pass?&#0160; The fact that so-called &#39;liberals&#39; are becoming more and more extreme.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Medved uncorked a good one yesterday when he referred to the ACLU as the American Criminal Liars Union. That&#39;s pretty harsh, but then the ACLU has shown itself on numerous occasions to be a contemptible bunch of leftist shysters. What justifies the use of invective? The fact that we are in a war.&#0160; Why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/06\/invective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Invective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}