{"id":67,"date":"2011-12-28T10:33:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-12-28T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T20:09:02","slug":"fox-geezer-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Fox Geezer Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bush Jr. speechwriter David Frum over at <a href=\"\">FrumForum<\/a> is posting some of the &#8220;Best of&#8221; from his site this year.  I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frumforum.com\/best-of-ff-fox-geezer-syndrome\" title=\"Fox Geezer Syndrome\"><\/a> by FF contributor Richmond Ramsey sounded awfully familiar.  My parents are not so much this way, but I know a number of members of their generation for whom this is spot-on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font color=red>&#8230; it turns out that our folks have all been sitting at home watching Fox News Channel all day \u2013 especially Glenn Beck\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know when it happened, exactly, but she began peppering our conversation with red-hot remarks about President Obama. I would try to engage her, but unless I shared her particular judgment, and her outrage, she apparently thought that I was a dupe or a RINO. Finally I asked my father privately why Mom, who as far as I know never before had a political thought, was so worked up about Obama all the time.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many of my co-workers in their mid 50s or later have begun to develop this personality trait. I had never thought that the trend extended across the nation. Perhaps I was wrong. I wonder how historians of the future will look back on the media of the early 2000s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bush Jr. speechwriter David Frum over at FrumForum is posting some of the &#8220;Best of&#8221; from his site this year. I thought by FF contributor Richmond Ramsey sounded awfully familiar. My parents are not so much this way, but I know a number of members of their generation for whom this is spot-on: &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}