{"id":754,"date":"2009-01-22T17:55:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T01:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/a-command-of-invective\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T01:55:19","slug":"a-command-of-invective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/a-command-of-invective\/","title":{"rendered":"A Command of Invective"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bow & grovel in the shadow of such lovely invective as this, which appeared just yesterday on Sadly, No!<\/a><\/p>\n

In terms of art, it ought to be said that the greatness of a Pastor
\nSwank, of a Mark Noonan or a John Hinderaker \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the quality which raises
\nthem above the howling roil of right-wing authoritarians, of spite
\nretailers, blowhards, closeted gay ministers, cranks, Bible lickers, of
\nnerds-gone-bad, of flag humpers, pseudo-intellectuals, chair-based
\nsaucer investigators, of stern-bodiced rape fantasists, of
\nmillennarians, Know-Nothings, Free Silver enthusiasts, jingoes, Oreos,
\nFoursquare McPhersonites, splinter Baptists, pseudo-Methodists,
\nPentecostal highway parishioners, of cynical purveyors of
\npurpose-driven things and of AMWAY, of Lydia Pinkham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Vegetable
\nCompound, Graham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s miracle flour, Kellogg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s abstinence-promoting Corn
\nFlake Cereal, or other products unevaluated by the FDA that are not
\nintended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease; of Goldwater
\nidolators, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcScoop Jackson liberals,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 McCarthyites, Yankees fans,
\nLikudniks, the mean of spirit, dupes, chumps, Dartmouth grads,
\nshysters, four-flushers, dog-kickers, self-dealers, Professors of X at
\nJames Madison University, wingnut welfare skillet-lickers and
\nbeak-wetters; of wingnut welfare high-rollers, pimps, queens,
\nbathroom-stall fellators, and generational dependents; of certain
\nformer or current WWF\/WWE personalities and\/or karate movie stars
\nand\/or minor Baldwin brothers, convicted Watergate felons, washed-up
\nRed Sox pitchers, and\/or 1970s Detroit-area rock musicians, as well as unnh<\/a> and gaah<\/a>, not to mention hunnh<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t solely in making up things that aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t true, but often in fact in forgetting things that are. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like Bluto Blutarsky at the beginning of Act 3, it doesn’t make any sense, but you don’t want to stop them when they’re on a roll… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bow & grovel in the shadow of such lovely invective as this, which appeared just yesterday on Sadly, No! In terms of art, it ought to be said that the greatness of a Pastor Swank, of a Mark Noonan or a John Hinderaker \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the quality which raises them above the howling roil of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}