{"id":173,"date":"2002-02-18T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2002-02-18T20:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/ripping-gray-davis\/"},"modified":"2002-02-18T13:39:27","modified_gmt":"2002-02-18T20:39:27","slug":"ripping-gray-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/18\/ripping-gray-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripping Gray Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; Celebrity blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/mattwelch.com\/old\/2002_02_17_archive.html#9855110\">Matt Welch<\/a> rips Gray and explains how lefties can bring themselves to support such an odious character:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJust combine a Tim Robbins-like conviction that Republicans not named Jim Jeffords are evil, with a Naderite certainty that corporations are the devil&#8217;s battering ram, and presto! You don&#8217;t have to pay attention, and you can vote Gray<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t read this if you&#8217;re tryng to get less cynical about politics.<\/p>\n<p>Welch says he&#8217;s been anti-Gray ever since the robotic one voted to allow off-shore drilling in the 80s. As a former Texan, I&#8217;ve always been mystified by the way the people of my adopted state of California feel about oil drilling. If you want to play, you&#8217;ve got to pay, so either ride a bike or support drilling.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Celebrity blogger Matt Welch rips Gray and explains how lefties can bring themselves to support such an odious character: Just combine a Tim Robbins-like conviction that Republicans not named Jim Jeffords are evil, with a Naderite certainty that corporations are the devil&#8217;s battering ram, and presto! You don&#8217;t have to pay attention, and you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/18\/ripping-gray-davis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ripping Gray Davis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-2N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}