{"id":10445,"date":"2019-06-18T18:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T22:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10445"},"modified":"2019-06-18T18:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T22:48:31","slug":"quote-for-the-day-185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10445","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Worse is always possible in this administration. But <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Sanders set a benchmark for awfulness<\/span> that was a thing to behold. It wasn\u2019t simply that she spun the news or shaded the truth, which many people in her position have been known to do. It wasn\u2019t even that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">she lied<\/span>, though she did that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">with abandon<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>It was that sneer of hers, the consciously curled lip, which seemed practiced before a mirror, that communicated bottomless <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">contempt<\/span> for individual journalists, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">for the profession of journalism itself and for the very idea of truth-as-such<\/span>. She combined the sincerity of Elmer Gantry with the moral outlook of Raskolnikov.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/18\/opinion\/sarah-sanders-trump.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bret Stephens, <i>New York Times<\/i><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well said.  Sanders&#8217; casual and routine dishonesty  exemplifies the reason that journalism is important and we should all be grateful for the First Amendment.  Her departure from the White House leaves it a (modestly) cleaner and better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worse is always possible in this administration. But Sanders set a benchmark for awfulness that was a thing to behold. It wasn\u2019t simply that she spun the news or shaded the truth, which many people in her position have been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10446,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445\/revisions\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}