{"id":3357,"date":"2012-01-24T07:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2012-01-24T07:24:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:24:38","slug":"he-is-enough-of-a-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"He is enough of a historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some may have heard of Saul Alinsky from Fox News or Newt Gingrich (same thing, of course).&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-talk-saul-alinsky-0124-20120124,0,4379279.story\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> has a short piece on a book about him.&nbsp; It included the following puzzling remark by the book&#39;s author:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Newt realizes this is just an act, saying Alinsky is a dangerous radical. Gingrich is enough of a historian to know what Alinsky was about,&quot; Horwitt said. &quot;This is something that he is feeding to a part of the conservative right. (Alinsky) was not a bomb-throwing radical by any means.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Newt, you mean, is lying.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowtransparency=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"0\" id=\"stSegmentFrame\" name=\"stframe\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/seg.sharethis.com\/getSegment.php?purl=http%3A%2F%2Fthenonsequitur.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php&amp;jsref=&amp;rnd=1327407758855\" style=\"body: transparent\" width=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"stwrapper\" id=\"stwrapper\" style=\"visibility: hidden; top: -999px; left: -999px\">\n<div class=\"stclose\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowtransparency=\"\" class=\"stLframe\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" id=\"stLframe\" name=\"stLframe\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\" style=\"top: 0px; left: 0px; body: transparent\" width=\"353\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may have heard of Saul Alinsky from Fox News or Newt Gingrich (same thing, of course).&nbsp; The Chicago Tribune has a short piece on a book about him.&nbsp; It included the following puzzling remark by the book&#39;s author: &quot;Newt realizes this is just an act, saying Alinsky is a dangerous radical. Gingrich is enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He is enough of a historian<\/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":[54],"tags":[294,2008,1284],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-that-are-false","tag-lying","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-saul-alinsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","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=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}