{"id":5084,"date":"2008-12-22T06:11:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T11:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2008-12-22T06:11:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T11:11:28","slug":"steven-salaita-obama-fans-suddenly-outraged-by-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5084","title":{"rendered":"Steven Salaita: Obama Fans Suddenly Outraged by Bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Steven Salaita, Antiwar.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/salaita.php?articleid=13937\">22 December 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s choice of Pastor Rick Warren of Orange County&#8217;s Saddleback Church to give the invocation at his inauguration has sent the liberal blogosphere into a frenzy of apprehension and indignation.  Warren is an advocate of Proposition 8, the measure that repealed gays&#8217; right to marry in California. It is no doubt a poor choice by Obama, but the outrage arising from the liberal-Left misses a number of crucial points, primary among them the fact that Obama&#8217;s selection of Warren may be in poor taste but it is in no way a betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, none of Obama&#8217;s Cabinet or advisory selections have been betrayals, although such an accusation is in vogue among increasingly jittery liberals.  &#8220;Now it has officially gone too far,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20081229\/posner?rel=hp_currently\">declares Sarah Posner<\/a> in the <em>Nation<\/em>, displaying a bit of the ceremonial righteousness that only the pious can muster. Warren is &#8220;a poster boy for kinder, gentler 21st century bigotry, and Obama shouldn&#8217;t validate him with this lofty symbolic role,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/walsh\/election_2008\/2008\/12\/19\/rick_warren\/\">notes Joan Walsh<\/a> at Salon.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/salaita.php?articleid=13937\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Steven Salaita, Antiwar.com, 22 December 2008 Barack Obama&#8217;s choice of Pastor Rick Warren of Orange County&#8217;s Saddleback Church to give the invocation at his inauguration has sent the liberal blogosphere into a frenzy of apprehension and indignation. Warren is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1k0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5088,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}