{"id":18505,"date":"2013-05-24T07:57:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T11:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18505"},"modified":"2013-05-24T07:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T11:57:02","slug":"see-me-hear-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18505","title":{"rendered":"See Me, Hear Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinkin bout Medea Benjamin, <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/05\/23\/18449779-heckler-repeatedly-interrupts-obama-speech?lite\">Obama's heckler<\/a>. I'm reminded of comment on a Balloon Juice thread that, over the years, I've found to be wonderfully handy when discussing these kinds of leftier-than-thou people; and so, from commenter, \"Joe From Lowell\", here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2011\/04\/12\/the-party-of-eeyore\/#comment-2527257\">Joe's Protest People Hypothesis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The most important thing to Protest People is their self-image as Protest People<\/strong>. If they\u2019re the first to denounce something, that gets them mega-points on the Protest People scale. If they\u2019re wrong, whatever loss of credibility they gain in terms of being reality-based is outweighed by the demonstration of what awesome Protest People they are. Heck, it actually helps their credibility among their intended, Protest People audience to be so wrong, because it\u2019s just more evidence of how ideologically hard core they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinkin bout Medea Benjamin, Obama's heckler. I'm reminded of comment on a Balloon Juice thread that, over the years, I've found to be wonderfully handy when discussing these kinds of leftier-than-thou people; and so, from commenter, \"Joe From Lowell\", here is Joe's Protest People Hypothesis: The most important thing to Protest People is their self-image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}