{"id":3029,"date":"2011-01-06T09:37:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2011-01-06T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:37:25","slug":"cillizza-channels-vizzini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3029","title":{"rendered":"Cillizza channels Vizzini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you gotta laugh to avoid crying at the ignorance of the punditocracy. In the 1990s, mostly-GOP consultant Dick Morris advised President Clinton to <em>triangulate<\/em>, which we learned meant moving to the center and thereby hoping to steal your opponents&#39; rhetorical thunder. Here comes Chris Cillizza, either redefining or misunderstanding the term:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px; \"><em>Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the de facto frontrunner in the 2012 field, drew national headlines when he came out against the tax cut compromise in a USA Today op-ed&#8230;.&nbsp;Romney wasn&#39;t done <strong>triangulating<\/strong> during the lame duck. He also opposed the new START treaty that the Senate approved in the waning days of 2010.<\/em> [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px; \">Cillizza, <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/republican-party\/triangulation-republican-style.html?wprss=thefix\">Triangulation, Republican-style<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So when Democrats triangulate, they move to the right, and when Republicans triangulate, they move to the right, too? In the words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk\">Inigo Montoya<\/a>, Mr. Cillizza, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you gotta laugh to avoid crying at the ignorance of the punditocracy. In the 1990s, mostly-GOP consultant Dick Morris advised President Clinton to triangulate, which we learned meant moving to the center and thereby hoping to steal your opponents&#39; rhetorical thunder. Here comes Chris Cillizza, either redefining or misunderstanding the term:&nbsp; Former Massachusetts Gov. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-MR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}