{"id":219,"date":"2012-04-12T02:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=219"},"modified":"2012-04-12T02:34:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:34:40","slug":"white-house-wage-gap-heh-heh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"White House Wage Gap, Heh Heh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The left has one of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2128513\/Women-paid-significantly-Obama-White-House-male-counterparts.html\">issues<\/a> near at hand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>All of President Barack Obama&#8217;s employees may not be treated equally in the White House, as recently released financial records show that female employees earn significantly less than their male counterparts.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not surprising.\u00a0 The left isn&#8217;t big on leading by example.\u00a0 They&#8217;re typically no better than those they accuse and quite often worse offenders of whatever it is they&#8217;re spouting off about any particular week.\u00a0 Like when they&#8217;re lecturing on civility.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to be more uncivil than a disgruntled leftist, and they&#8217;re usually disgruntled about something.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just what they do.<\/p>\n<p>You have to read the foreign papers to find out about stuff like this.\u00a0 I mean, you&#8217;re not going to hear about it on the mainstream liberal media, who have been in the tank for our young president ever since he hit the national scene after voting present as an obscure state legislator.\u00a0 The foreign press are the ones who tell us what&#8217;s really going on, rather than transcribing whatever the White House faxes to them.\u00a0 They did get one detail wrong, however.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Unlike in previous years, Mr Obama may be held to a greater degree of accountability on the issue now as both parties paint the other as waging a war against women.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, he won&#8217;t be held to any accountability.\u00a0 The right might bring this up as an example of liberal hypocrisy, and they&#8217;d be correct.\u00a0 But nobody listens to the right, other than other rightists.\u00a0 (The mainstream media reporting what Media Matters tells them Rush just said doesn&#8217;t count.)\u00a0 The left isn&#8217;t about to hold BHO accountable because they really don&#8217;t care, although they&#8217;re the ones who have made wage disparity an issue.\u00a0 The left has it as an issue, and like all of their issues, just having it is sufficient.\u00a0 They have no interest in solving any of them, because issues are useful in capturing squares on the cultural war chessboard.\u00a0 Solving them would be like losing pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left has one of its issues near at hand. All of President Barack Obama&#8217;s employees may not be treated equally in the White House, as recently released financial records show that female employees earn significantly less than their male &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mainstream-media","category-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}