{"id":3470,"date":"2012-03-18T07:26:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T12:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2012-03-18T07:26:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T12:26:53","slug":"how-i-know-when-to-stop-reading-peggy-noonan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3470","title":{"rendered":"How I know when to stop reading Peggy Noonan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a Peggy Noonan<\/a> column about how liberals are the real enemies of women.  I knew to stop reading it when I read this line, the first line:<\/p>\n

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There is <\/em>a war against women. It is something comparatively new in our national life<\/strong>, and we have to start noticing it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Recall that women attained the right to vote in 1920.  Before that I guess there was no war against women, because you can only war against a person.  Please fill in your own examples. <\/p>\n

I did read the rest.  TL;DR: the left is especially guilty of sexist attacks in place of argument, Rush Limbaugh was merely trying to protect religious liberty from the language police.  It also includes the following very awesome hollow man:<\/p>\n

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Why would the left be worse? Let me be harsh. Some left-wing men think they can talk like this because they're on the correct side on social issues such as abortion<\/strong>. Their attitude: "I backed you on the abortions you want so much, I opposed a ban on partial birth. Hell, I'll let you kill kids at any point until they're 15, I'm cool. And that means I can call women in public life t – – – s, right? Because, you know, I think of them that way."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That's almost text book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a Peggy Noonan column about how liberals are the real enemies of women.  I knew to stop reading it when I read this line, the first line: There is a war against women. It is something comparatively new in our national life, and we have to start noticing it. Recall that women attained … Continue reading How I know when to stop reading Peggy Noonan<\/span> →<\/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":[2006,132,1329,1335],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-peggy-noonan","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-sandra-fluke","tag-war-against-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}