{"id":3175,"date":"2005-03-23T01:19:19","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T09:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/03\/23\/balloon-juice\/"},"modified":"2005-03-23T01:19:19","modified_gmt":"2005-03-23T09:19:19","slug":"balloon-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/balloon-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tJohn Cole has been blogging up a storm at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/\">Balloon Juice<\/a> and so has Bill at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indcjournal.com\/\">InDC Journal<\/a>. Both are center-right bloggers annoyed by the grandstanding and exploitation of Terri Schiavo.<\/p>\n<p>The soap opera that&#8217;s been created by such shameless acts as the Palm Sunday Overreach reminds me of the Elian Gonzalez case. One of the parallels is the willingness to throw family rights to the wind if there&#8217;s a sexier symbol to be had, as anti-Castro was for the Cuban Mafia and &#8220;Life&#8221; as a lifeless abstraction is for the anti-abortionists. There&#8217;s nothing more important to a real conservative than family unless it&#8217;s privacy, and having your private life smeared all over cable news while people like Tom DeLay try and score points by slandering you (as they have Michael Schiavo) calls a lot of principles into question.<\/p>\n<p>This is a kind of mass hysteria, and I&#8217;ll be glad when it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cole has been blogging up a storm at Balloon Juice and so has Bill at InDC Journal. Both are center-right bloggers annoyed by the grandstanding and exploitation of Terri Schiavo. The soap opera that&#8217;s been created by such shameless acts as the Palm Sunday Overreach reminds me of the Elian Gonzalez case. One of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/balloon-juice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti-exploitation&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Pd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","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=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}