{"id":2619,"date":"2003-12-11T02:27:11","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2003-12-11T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T09:27:11","slug":"the-dean-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/11\/the-dean-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dean Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, am I ever sick of the <a href='http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/national\/20031210-112846-9401r.htm'>another McGovern<\/a> meme currently being propagated by Republicans ostensibly thrilled that Dean is going to clinch the Democratic nomination.   Dean ain&#8217;t my first choice for the nomination, and I honestly don&#8217;t know if he can beat Bush in 2004, but the whole &#8220;Dean = McGovern&#8221; thing drives me nuts.<\/p>\n<p>So do me a favor.   The next time someone feeds you this line, reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dean is McGovern?  Huh.  Well, then by extending your analogy we can conclude that Bush is Nixon: a man so obsessed with power, secrecy and personal vendettas that the second term of his presidency will collapse under the weight of its own corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what we know now about the two candidates, I think most people would prefer to vote for McGovern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point the person comparing Dean to McGovern will have to (a) concede to your dizzying logic or (b) admit that the analogy is facile.  (Or, if you&#8217;re on The O&#8217;Reilly Factor, (c) tell you to shut up.)  In any case, this would help nip this meme in the bud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, am I ever sick of the another McGovern meme currently being propagated by Republicans ostensibly thrilled that Dean is going to clinch the Democratic nomination. Dean ain&#8217;t my first choice for the nomination, and I honestly don&#8217;t know if he can beat Bush in 2004, but the whole &#8220;Dean = McGovern&#8221; thing drives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}