{"id":141,"date":"2004-09-03T18:11:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=141"},"modified":"2004-09-03T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T23:11:14","slug":"political-attacks-vs-personal-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/09\/03\/political-attacks-vs-personal-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Political attacks vs. personal attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instapundit has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/017576.php\">collection of reflections<\/a> on Zell Miller&#8217;s speech at the Republican convention on Wednesday evening.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIs it fair game to attack a candidate&#8217;s political record? Or does that amount to a personal attack on the candidate? Read the links before you answer; the commentators may not change your mind, but <em>will<\/em> give you pause for thought.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5892840\/\">original quote<\/a> by <em>Hardball<\/em> host Chris Matthews:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>That attack about Ted Kennedy and John Kerry was personal.  Nobody is going to step back and say it wasn&#8217;t.  The idea that this guy is going to shoot spitballs in defense of country that he risked his life to defend some years ago is a personal attack on the guy.  This is serious business.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, Chris, dude&#8230; there&#8217;s a lot of folks saying that this wasn&#8217;t personal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instapundit has a nice collection of reflections on Zell Miller&#8217;s speech at the Republican convention on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-new-jfk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-2h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}