{"id":4634,"date":"2001-12-07T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-07T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:07:12","slug":"nattering-nabobs-of-negativism-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2001\/12\/07\/nattering-nabobs-of-negativism-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Nattering Nabobs of Negativism II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nattering nabobs of negativism II<br \/>\nWilliam Safire (San Francisco Chronicle)<br \/>\n(December 7, 2001)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2001\/12\/07\/ED216606.DTL\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2001\/12\/07\/ED216606.DTL<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Preparing to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee where to get off yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft lashed out at all who dare to uphold our bedrock rule of law as &#8220;voices of negativism.&#8221;  (A nattering nabob, moi?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This entry also posted at Yahoo! Groups &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/ndn-aim\/\">ndn-aim<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nattering nabobs of negativism II William Safire (San Francisco Chronicle) (December 7, 2001) http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2001\/12\/07\/ED216606.DTL Preparing to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee where to get off yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft lashed out at all&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-civil-liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1cK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7414,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions\/7414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}