{"id":4228,"date":"2013-05-25T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T13:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2013-05-25T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T13:53:11","slug":"quote-of-the-day-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/quote-of-the-day-136\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That, it seems to us, is the central story of our time. The left-liberal elite that attained cultural dominance between the 1960s and the 1980s&#8211;and that since 2008 has seen itself as being on the cusp of political dominance as well&#8211;is undergoing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/17V5ktW\" target=\"_blank\">a crisis of authority<\/a>, and its defenses are increasingly ferocious and unprincipled.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/qfW6g1\" target=\"_blank\">Journalists lie<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/15dw9br\" target=\"_blank\">ignore important but politically uncongenial stories<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/qsMeE5\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists suppress alternative hypotheses<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/y2Op5a\" target=\"_blank\">Political organizations bully apolitical charities<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/17GhXcf\" target=\"_blank\">The Internal Revenue Service persecutes dissenters<\/a>. And campus censorship goes on still.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324216004578479410300334682.html?dsk=y\">James Taranto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That, it seems to us, is the central story of our time. The left-liberal elite that attained cultural dominance between the 1960s and the 1980s&#8211;and that since 2008 has seen itself as being on the cusp of political dominance as well&#8211;is undergoing\u00a0a crisis of authority, and its defenses are increasingly ferocious and unprincipled.\u00a0Journalists lie\u00a0or\u00a0ignore important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"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":[45,19],"tags":[480,486,621,638,639],"class_list":["post-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech-politics","category-politics","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-liberal","tag-politics","tag-quote","tag-quote-of-the-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-16c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}