{"id":2451761,"date":"2019-12-02T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-times-columnist-twists-words-to-inflame-the-left\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T08:19:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:19:52","slug":"aspen-times-columnist-twists-words-to-inflame-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-times-columnist-twists-words-to-inflame-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Times columnist twists words to inflame the left"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Near the end of Glenn Beaton\u2019s column \u201cTwo Reasons why the left hates America,\u201d<\/a> he says of leftists: \u201c\u2026 don\u2019t persuade them with facts and logic.\u201d (Nov. 30, aspentimes.com). Well, Mr. Beaton has certainly taken his own advice.<\/p>\n

The column starts with a statement of fact, including that \u201c32% of Democrats and 23% of self-described liberals\u201d agree with 74% of Republicans that they are \u201cextremely proud to be Americans.\u201d He then uses that data as springboard to ask \u201cWhy does the left hate America?\u201d<\/p>\n

Pu-lease!<\/p>\n

Not being \u2018extremely proud\u201d of any thing is not the same as \u201chating\u201d that thing. Even if it were, by the very data Mr. Beaton cited, 23% of liberals and 32% of Democrats answered that they are extremely proud to be Americans, so it is not accurate to go on talking of \u201cthe left\u201d as a monolithic block. And by the way, that same citation says 26% of Republicans did not say they were \u201cextremely proud.\u201d I do not believe that means they \u201chate America,\u201d though Mr. Beaton apparently does.<\/p>\n

He then proceeds to criticize at length (in blatant and ignorant stereotypes and straw-man argumentation) the ways in which \u201cthe left\u201d voices dissatisfaction with particular facets of current life or governance in the U.S.A., as if being dissatisfied with any institution is the same as hating that institution. Does Mr. Beaton really believe that Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and James Madison \u201chated\u201d America, just because they did not consider it perfect from its inception? Abraham Lincoln?<\/p>\n

It is clear from this column that Beaton has no intention of engaging anyone who does not already share his legion of prejudices, stereotypes and resentments. As an extremely proud American, I sincerely hope The Aspen Times will not publish more of these diatribes. There are better uses for ink and newsprint.<\/p>\n

Robin Schiller<\/p>\n

Carbondale<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Near the end of Glenn Beaton\u2019s column \u201cTwo Reasons why the left hates America,\u201d he says of leftists: \u201c\u2026 don\u2019t persuade them with facts and logic.\u201d (Nov. 30, aspentimes.com). Well, Mr. Beaton has certainly taken his own advice. The column starts with a statement of fact, including that \u201c32% of Democrats and 23% of self-described […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2451761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 06:59:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451784,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451761\/revisions\/2451784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}