{"id":3378,"date":"2012-02-06T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2012-02-07T14:47:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T19:47:42","slug":"on-farting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3378","title":{"rendered":"On farting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe allowtransparency=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twttrHubFrame\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets\/hub.1326407570.html\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 10px; height: 10px; top: -9999em\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Farting-Language-Laughter-Middle-Ages\/dp\/0312234937\">It&#39;s a book<\/a>.&nbsp; Check it out here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s also a method of arguing.&nbsp; Here&#39;s an illustration:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bestiary.ca\/beastimage\/img155.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/02\/mcdonnell-gop-governors-deserve-credit-for-the-recovery-not-obama.php?ref=fpnewsfeed\">Here<\/a> is another illustration:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Virginia Governor and Mitt Romney surrogate Bob McDonnell (R) on Sunday floated what may turn into a Republican talking point if the economy continues to improve: It wasn&rsquo;t President Obama who made it happen, it was the GOP governors.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look, I&rsquo;m glad the economy is starting to recover, <strong>but I think it&rsquo;s because of what Republican governors are doing in their states, not because of the president<\/strong>,&rdquo; McDonnell said on CNN&rsquo;s &ldquo;State of the Union.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia governor unleashed a comprehensive broadside against Obama&rsquo;s economic record and governance in his first term. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a complete failure of leadership,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He cannot run on his record. He&rsquo;s had no plan for jobs or energy that he&rsquo;s got passed, so he&rsquo;s got a tough record.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When things go well, the Republicans did it.&nbsp; When things go badly, democrats, so the Governor farted.&nbsp; As the author of the above snippett quickly pointed out, the Governor&#39;s claim is hard to square with the facts, as jobs were gained across the board (even in states with Democratic governors).<\/p>\n<p>None of this is an argument for the claim that Obama did it.&nbsp; This view, however, doesn&#39;t amount to much more than farting in everyone&#39;s face.&nbsp; We need a shield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s a book.&nbsp; Check it out here.&nbsp; It&#39;s also a method of arguing.&nbsp; Here&#39;s an illustration: Here is another illustration: Virginia Governor and Mitt Romney surrogate Bob McDonnell (R) on Sunday floated what may turn into a Republican talking point if the economy continues to improve: It wasn&rsquo;t President Obama who made it happen, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On farting<\/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":[1],"tags":[1297,1298,1976,1975],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bob-mcdonnell","tag-farting","tag-non-causa-pro-causa","tag-post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","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=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}