{"id":966,"date":"2006-01-12T06:43:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T06:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:32","slug":"black_world_dun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Black World (Duncan Black World, That Is)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket scientist Duncan Black <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2006_01_08_atrios_archive.html#113704263848430904\" target=\"browser\">points with thoughtless glee<\/a> to the fact that the Iraqis are &#8211; a month after their election &#8211; trying to work out a government.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Start Wearing Purple<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nUm, just asking, but it&#8217;s been almost a month since the Iraq election and we still don&#8217;t know what the final outcome is?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that he&#8217;s forgotten it &#8211; I mean how many national elections cause people to rend their garments for years on end &#8211; but what exactly were the headlines in the New York Times like on December 5, 2000?<\/p>\n<p>The politics (and society and economics) of Iraq are far messier than I wish they were. Reality is kind of like that.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s debate about what&#8217;s going on and what to do that&#8217;s worth having. But because everything in BlackWorld is filtered through one lens &#8211; &#8220;How can it help my bosses at Media Matters kick the Republicans out&#8221; &#8211; we get a characteristic cheap shot instead, and a reminder of why it is that Duncan &#8211; and to and extent the masters who pay him to blog &#8211; aren&#8217;t useful participants in that debate. <\/p>\n<p>I genuinely wish they were. Bummer, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan Black is whining about how long it is taking to resolve the results of the Iraqi election. Armed Liberal asks about the headlines in the New York Times on December 5, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}