{"id":1093,"date":"2009-08-04T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2009-08-04T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:35:22","slug":"politics-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/08\/04\/politics-34\/","title":{"rendered":"politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2009\/08\/whos_he_arguing_with.php#more?ref=fpblg\">Josh Marshall<\/a> navigates contemporary politics with ease:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marc also has this line &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    I posit that there is no meaningful distinction b\/w grassroots, organized and spontaneous gatherings in the modern world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, there&#8217;s no such thing as spontaneous gatherings. I think the distinction we&#8217;re getting at is whether in the &#8216;modern world&#8217; there&#8217;s any distinction between actual grassroots organizing and astroturf rent-a-riots put together purely for media consumption by monied special interest groups. The two categories often bleed into each other. But in broad strokes they&#8217;re fairly distinguishable. To the extent that there&#8217;s &#8216;no meaningful distinction&#8217; in the modern world that&#8217;s almost entirely a factor of reporters not doing their jobs poorly. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall navigates contemporary politics with ease: Marc also has this line &#8230; I posit that there is no meaningful distinction b\/w grassroots, organized and spontaneous gatherings in the modern world. First, there&#8217;s no such thing as spontaneous gatherings. I think the distinction we&#8217;re getting at is whether in the &#8216;modern world&#8217; there&#8217;s any distinction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}