{"id":2181,"date":"2010-08-26T16:56:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T21:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2010-08-26T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T21:56:29","slug":"more-nutpicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"More nutpicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_08\/025398.php\">Here&#39;s an almost definitional instance of nutpicking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>&#39;NUTPICKING&#39; HASN&#39;T GONE AWAY&#8230;.<\/b> I&#39;d hoped we were past <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/08\/26\/malkin-tp-comments\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported news that a Muslim cab driver in New York City had been assaulted by a passenger simply because of his faith. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today on Fox News, right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin discussed the incident and argued that the real story is not about the hate crime, but rather, the progressive blogosphere<\/strong>. &quot;Something really ugly happened,&quot; she said. &quot;Time and again, when something like this happens &#8212; any random incident of violence &#8212; there are people on the left with a knee-jerk impulse to indict the right.&quot; As evidence, Malkin pointed to comments left on ThinkProgress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Note, Malkin wasn&#39;t offended by what ThinkProgress wrote; she was offended when she dug through the comments section and found reactions she found distasteful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Classy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s an almost definitional instance of nutpicking: &#39;NUTPICKING&#39; HASN&#39;T GONE AWAY&#8230;. I&#39;d hoped we were past this. Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported news that a Muslim cab driver in New York City had been assaulted by a passenger simply because of his faith. [&#8230;] Today on Fox News, right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin discussed the incident and argued &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More nutpicking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[768,533,500],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weak-man-straw-man-fallacies-of-relevance-fallacies-argument-problems","tag-michelle-malkin","tag-nut-picking","tag-washington-monthly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}