{"id":373,"date":"2002-03-26T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2002-03-26T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/liberals-of-convenience\/"},"modified":"2002-03-26T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2002-03-26T17:48:43","slug":"liberals-of-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/26\/liberals-of-convenience\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals of convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; <i>Bias<\/i> author Bernard Goldberg bites back at Frank Rich and his other critics in this interview in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/15\/12\/news&#038;columns\/feature.cfm\">New York Press<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd here&#8217;s the bulletin: the people I&#8217;m calling liberals aren&#8217;t real liberals. Real liberals are people I personally admire. I admire people who put it on the line for something they believe in. Lliberals in our history, in the 1960s for instance, put their lives on the line. I admire that. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He calls them &#8220;liberals of convenience&#8221; in the book.<P>Goldberg delves into the motivations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/03\/02\/opinion\/02RICH.html\">Frank Rich&#8217;s tawdry hit-piece<\/a> against him as well.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Bias author Bernard Goldberg bites back at Frank Rich and his other critics in this interview in the New York Press And here&#8217;s the bulletin: the people I&#8217;m calling liberals aren&#8217;t real liberals. Real liberals are people I personally admire. I admire people who put it on the line for something they believe in. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/26\/liberals-of-convenience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liberals of convenience&#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-373","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-61","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}