{"id":8,"date":"2011-01-10T06:42:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andarian.com\/RepealTheBailouts\/?p=8"},"modified":"2022-07-29T22:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T22:20:25","slug":"politically-exploiting-a-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.andarian.net\/parallel\/politics\/politically-exploiting-a-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Politically Exploiting a Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to express my contempt for those who have been trying to exploit the Arizona shooting for purposes of political propaganda. The shooter was clearly mentally ill, and the hodgepodge of random comments and influences we&#8217;re hearing about him reflect no coherent theme beyond that. To try to spin that into an attack on one&#8217;s political opposition is not just wrong; it&#8217;s depraved.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Another good analysis of this story:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/the-instant-politicization-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Giffords Shooting, The Instant Politicization of Everything, &amp; Why Americans Increasingly Hate Dems &amp; Reps<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to express my contempt for those who have been trying to exploit the Arizona shooting for purposes of political propaganda. The shooter was clearly mentally ill, and the hodgepodge of random comments and influences we&#8217;re hearing about him reflect no coherent theme beyond that. To try to spin that into an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blood_libel","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Politically Exploiting a Tragedy - Parallel Author<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/culture.andarian.net\/parallel\/politics\/politically-exploiting-a-tragedy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Politically Exploiting a Tragedy - Parallel Author\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I can&#8217;t even begin to express my contempt for those who have been trying to exploit the Arizona shooting for purposes of political propaganda. 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