{"id":966,"date":"2007-08-13T23:53:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T03:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/get-your-war-on-annoying-public-intellectuals\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T23:53:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T03:53:39","slug":"get-your-war-on-annoying-public-intellectuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/get-your-war-on-annoying-public-intellectuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your War On Annoying Public Intellectuals"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know who David Rees<\/a> is.<\/p>\n

You might not recognize the name right away, but you will surely know about Get Your War On<\/a>, which is Rees’ brilliant strip of savage clipart acid political comedy.<\/p>\n

What you might not know is that Rees is also an excellent comic essayist. <\/p>\n

Want proof?<\/p>\n

My wife sent me a link today to Rees’ latest piece<\/a> at the Huffington Post<\/a>, wherein he completely, viciously, and righteously, rips apart Michael Ignatieff<\/a>. I wanted to cheer at several points while reading this.<\/p>\n

Here’s a bit, but seriously, go read it all<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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“Good judgment means understanding how to be responsible to those who pay the price of your decisions. . . . Sometimes sacrificing my judgment to (my consituents’) is the essence of my job. Provided, of course, that I don’t sacrifice my principles. . . .”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Attention, Michael Ignatieff’s constituents: HE THINKS YOU’RE DUMB. Also, there’s something suspicious about that “Provided, of course. . .”<\/i> It’s only five syllables, but it seems to mask a conga line of condescension. It makes me think Ignatieff assumes his readers<\/i> are dumb, too. But I’m not dumb– I predicted the Iraq war would be a disaster. And that means I’m as smart as a bus driver.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know who David Rees is. You might not recognize the name right away, but you will surely know about Get Your War On, which is Rees’ brilliant strip of savage clipart acid political comedy. What you might not know is that Rees is also an excellent comic essayist. Want proof? My wife sent me a link today to Rees’… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-fA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}