{"id":890,"date":"2008-10-01T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2008-10-01T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T19:30:03","slug":"comes-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Comes around"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathleen Parker, famous here for her frequent and crappy arguments, gripes that she got some hate email–the worst ever–after she wrote a column suggesting Sarah Palin should step down from the Republican ticket.  She writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON — Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a Dumpster, but since she didn't, I should "off" myself.<\/p>\n

Those are just a few nuggets randomly selected from thousands of e-mails written in response to my column suggesting that Sarah Palin<\/a> is out of her league and should step down.<\/p>\n

Who says public discourse hasn't deteriorated? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Firedoglake, a liberal website, points<\/a> to a column of Parker's in the non too distant past (2003).  She wrote<\/a> [read the entertaining commentary at the link as well]:<\/p>\n

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[Zell] Miller is not alone, though some are more sanguine when it comes to evaluating the roster of contenders. Here's a note I got recently from a friend and former Delta Force member, who has been observing American politics from the trenches: "These bastards like Clark and Kerry and that incipient ass, Dean, and Gephardt and Kucinich and that absolute mental midget Sharpton, race baiter, should all be lined up and shot. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When did public discourse start to deteriorate Kathleen? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathleen Parker, famous here for her frequent and crappy arguments, gripes that she got some hate email–the worst ever–after she wrote a column suggesting Sarah Palin should step down from the Republican ticket.  She writes: WASHINGTON — Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted … Continue reading Comes around<\/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":[73,70],"tags":[336,1992,335,288],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inexplicable","category-kathleen-parker","tag-hate-email","tag-kathleen-parker","tag-public-discourse","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}