{"id":3203,"date":"2005-04-06T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T20:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/04\/06\/roger-l-simon-peretz-speaks\/"},"modified":"2005-04-06T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T20:31:19","slug":"roger-l-simon-peretz-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/06\/roger-l-simon-peretz-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger L. Simon: Peretz Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHere’s a quick link from Roger Simon<\/a> quoting Marty Peretz:<\/p>\n

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If George W. Bush were to discover a cure for cancer, his critics would denounce him for having done it unilaterally, without adequate consultation, with a crude disregard for the sensibilities of others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This strikes me as about right, although some of Dubya’s critics have begun to admit he was basically right about that whole democracy thing, as in “yes, Virginia, even brown people want to be free.”\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a quick link from Roger Simon quoting Marty Peretz: If George W. Bush were to discover a cure for cancer, his critics would denounce him for having done it unilaterally, without adequate consultation, with a crude disregard for the sensibilities of others. This strikes me as about right, although some of Dubya’s critics have … Continue reading “Roger L. Simon: Peretz Speaks”<\/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-3203","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-PF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","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=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}