{"id":704,"date":"2005-08-02T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/112299889455392886\/"},"modified":"2005-08-02T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T16:51:00","slug":"112299889455392886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112299889455392886\/","title":{"rendered":"112299889455392886"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,1072-1716156,00.html\">Times opinion piece<\/a> more suited to a particularly idiotic blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/london-times-racist-rewrites-history.html\">taken apart<\/a> by a not particularly idiotic blog (which is in turn then attacked by <a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.bloghouse.net\/archives\/2005\/08\/01\/the_story_so_far.php\">one of the most idiotic blogs going<\/a>* &#8211; and you&#8217;ll probably have to refresh that link as they don&#8217;t like people linking direct to posts&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I, meanwhile, will merely point out that the Times piece, by Anthony Browne, was already worthy of contempt merely for breaking Godwin&#8217;s Law by the first sentence of the second paragraph. Note to idiots: Nazism was an ideology based on hatred, and the majority of true Nazis were nutters; Islam is an ideology based on religious devotion, and the majority of true Muslims are no more nutty than anyone else who believes in an all-powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent deity. Direct comparisons are doomed to make you look even more foolish than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/talkpolitics.users20.donhost.co.uk\/index.php?title=the_pro_war_left_gets_a_good_fisking\">a rather nice fisking by Talk Politics<\/a> on this as well.<\/p>\n<p>* I should probably point out that the response itself gives a good impression of being sane, and that David T is usually one of the less barking posters there, even if the response would tend to suggest that the blog on which it appears has a rather bad case of double-standards when it comes to people it disagrees with versus people it adores&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Times opinion piece more suited to a particularly idiotic blog is taken apart by a not particularly idiotic blog (which is in turn then attacked by one of the most idiotic blogs going* &#8211; and you&#8217;ll probably have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112299889455392886\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}