{"id":15853,"date":"2002-06-19T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-19T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/19\/w-is-a-moron-no-matter-what-his-spin-doctors-try\/"},"modified":"2002-06-19T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-19T16:10:00","slug":"w-is-a-moron-no-matter-what-his-spin-doctors-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/19\/w-is-a-moron-no-matter-what-his-spin-doctors-try\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>W is a moron, no matter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/06\/19\/opinion\/19DOWD.html?ex=1025502423&amp;ei=1&amp;en=fabca0b4b62c16dc\" target=\"_blank\">what his spin doctors try to say<\/a>.  I really doubt that the man  who cheerfully (and smarmily, I might add) admits to being a non-elitist C student discussed the Nicomachean Ethics of Tocqueville with a colleague.  To wit: among the countless intellectual blunders, faux pas, and outright mistakes that W makes, this is the deep insight he had on immigration last week, &ldquo;We need to know who&rsquo;s coming in and why they&rsquo;re not going out.&rdquo;  As the story suggests, maybe it was actually Nickelodeon Ethics that he discussed. :-p<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-77938155?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W is a moron, no matter what his spin doctors try to say. I really doubt that the man who cheerfully (and smarmily, I might add) admits to being a non-elitist C student discussed the Nicomachean Ethics of Tocqueville with a colleague. To wit: among the countless intellectual blunders, faux pas, and outright mistakes that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/19\/w-is-a-moron-no-matter-what-his-spin-doctors-try\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}