{"id":14681,"date":"2008-02-24T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14681.html"},"modified":"2008-02-24T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:10:16","slug":"kristol-recommends-the-politics-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/kristol-recommends-the-politics-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristol recommends the &#8216;politics of fear&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because some things are as <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/24\/kristol-politics-of-fear\/\">predictable as the sunrise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This morning on Fox News Sunday, New York Times columnist Bill Kristol recommended that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) employ the &#8220;politics of fear&#8221; to attack Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Obama&#8217;s] riding a wave of euphoria. She [Clinton] needs to puncture it. The way you puncture euphoria is reality, or to be more blunt, fear. I recommend to Senator Clinton the politics of fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kristol explained that his fear-mongering political strategy would focus on Iran. He recommended that Clinton say the following about Obama: &#8220;He wants to negotiate on January 21st with Ahmadinejad. Here&#8217;s what Ahmadinejad has said about blowing up Israel.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kristol? The &#8220;politics of fear&#8221;? Who would have guessed?<\/p>\n<p>In related news, Dick Cheney recommended something secretive, Karl Rove recommended attacking everyone&#8217;s patriotism, the president recommended something incompetent, and John McCain recommended something incoherent and then denied making the recommendation a few minutes later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because some things are as predictable as the sunrise. This morning on Fox News Sunday, New York Times columnist Bill Kristol recommended that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) employ the &#8220;politics of fear&#8221; to attack Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL): &#8220;[Obama&#8217;s] riding a wave of euphoria. She [Clinton] needs to puncture it. The way you puncture euphoria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}