{"id":664,"date":"2009-03-30T06:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T06:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=664"},"modified":"2009-03-30T06:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T06:51:23","slug":"the_proper_perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"The Proper Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/03\/29\/just-leave-it-alone\/\">Hotair.com<\/a>&nbsp;has posted the definitive&nbsp;comments on a New York Post article abount a certain politician&#8217;s daughter photographed using cocaine.&nbsp; The bottom line is, &#8220;Leave the daughter alone.&nbsp; She is responsibile for her choices.&nbsp; Her actions have nothing to do with her father.&nbsp; His daughter is 27, please respect her privacy.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is unfortunate that recreational drug use is not unusual in this country, but it is a fact of life.&nbsp; The fact that someone would try to make serious money out of someone else&#8217;s drug use is disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Morrissey points out that the woman&#8217;s identity on the tape is not confirmed and then sums up the situation as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the woman&#8217;s identity <em>was<\/em> confirmed and <em>she<\/em> was a public official, then <em>that<\/em> would be news.&nbsp; The person alleged to be in this tape is <em>not<\/em> a public official, but the adult daughter of a public official.&nbsp; Does this inform us of public policy, competence or integrity in office, or corruption or abuse of power?&nbsp; Not at all.&nbsp; So what&#8217;s the point, except to take a cheap shot at a public official we may not like?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at Hotair.com&nbsp;has posted the definitive&nbsp;comments on a New York Post article abount a certain politician&#8217;s daughter photographed using cocaine.&nbsp; The bottom line is, &#8220;Leave the daughter alone.&nbsp; She is responsibile for her choices.&nbsp; Her actions have nothing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=664\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}