{"id":327,"date":"2002-03-15T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2002-03-15T21:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/self-conscious-contrarians\/"},"modified":"2002-03-15T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2002-03-15T21:45:05","slug":"self-conscious-contrarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/15\/self-conscious-contrarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-conscious contrarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; Robert Reich&#8217;s American Prospect is either nervous or happy about being noticed by Warblogs. See <a href=\"\">TAP: Web Feature: Editor&#8217;s Desk<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Little did I know that within a week of these changes, a wide range of <I>TAP Online<\/I> content would simultaneously provoke heated discussion on a number of of leading conservative and opinion Web sites.  Robert Kuttner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/072\/oped\/Fear_of_Them_fear_of_Us+.shtml\" target=\"outlink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 13 <I>Boston Globe<\/I> column<\/a> &#8212; currently a focal point on <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.blogspot.com\/?\/2002_03_10_instapundit_archive.html\" target=\"outlink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instapundit.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\/\" target=\"outlink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AndrewSullivan.com<\/a> (search for &#8220;Kuttner&#8221;), and <I>The Wall Street Journal<\/I>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=105001760\" target=\"outlink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best of the Web<\/a> (search for &#8220;Kuttner&#8221; again) &#8212; hasn&#8217;t even been posted yet on our site and won&#8217;t be there until Monday.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kausfiles.com\/\" target=\"outlink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kausfiles.com<\/a> just devoted an extended critical post to Natasha Berger&#8217;s popular &#8220;Liberal Arts&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/webfeatures\/2002\/03\/berger-n-03-07.html\" target=\"outlink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece<\/a> on Doris Kearns Goodwin.  Which is to say nothing of <I>National Review<\/I> editor Rich Lowry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/thecorner\/2002_03_10_corner-archive.shtml#75008302\" target=\"outlink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple postings<\/a> (scroll up for more) in response to Jeremy Lott&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/webfeatures\/2002\/03\/lott-j-03-11.html\" target=\"outlink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent article<\/a> about Lowry&#8217;s discussion of whether the United States should consider &#8220;nuking Mecca&#8221; in the event of a terrorist nuclear detonation on U.S. soil.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to know that The Nation doesn&#8217;t have to carry the burden of leftwing silliness all by themselves now.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Robert Reich&#8217;s American Prospect is either nervous or happy about being noticed by Warblogs. See TAP: Web Feature: Editor&#8217;s Desk Little did I know that within a week of these changes, a wide range of TAP Online content would simultaneously provoke heated discussion on a number of of leading conservative and opinion Web sites. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/15\/self-conscious-contrarians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Self-conscious contrarians&#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-327","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-5h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}