{"id":12589,"date":"2020-08-26T19:43:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12589"},"modified":"2020-08-26T19:43:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:43:57","slug":"from-dnc-irony-to-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/from-dnc-irony-to-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"From DNC Irony to Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If nothing else, the architects of the 2020 Democratic Convention appeared to be ignorant of irony. Either that, or they know irony so well and cared so little that they wished to ram it down the throats of the few who watched the nightly taped speeches\u2014as if to say, \u201cWe\u2019re hypocrites and proud of it\u2014and what are&nbsp;<em>you<\/em>&nbsp;going to do about it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It all reminded me of China\u2019s now-defiant implicit response to its Wuhan lab virus, \u201cYeah it started here. And yeah we spread it. And yeah, we\u2014the world\u2019s premier racists and xenophobes\u2014called you racists and xenophobes. And yeah, we let the coronavirus get loose, and blamed you for inventing it. So exactly what are\u00a0<em>you<\/em>\u00a0going to do about it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is one rule that should guide all of Bill Clinton\u2019s post-presidential speeches. He must never use the word \u201cOval Office\u201d in reference to its ethical or professional requirements during his own tenure. The second he does, the natural response is to equate that hallowed location with the scene of his tawdry sexual escapades with a young intern\u2014what the Left under other circumstances would call, at best, a \u201cpower imbalance\u201d or \u201ca hostile workplace climate,\u201d and at worst sexual assault, full stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/08\/23\/from-dnc-irony-to-parody\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness If nothing else, the architects of the 2020 Democratic Convention appeared to be ignorant of irony. Either that, or they know irony so well and cared so little that they wished to ram it down the throats of the few who watched the nightly taped speeches\u2014as if to say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3h3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13292,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-bleak-biden-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":12589,"position":0},"title":"The Bleak Biden Way","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness After a hundred days of President Biden, I think most Americans are now on to what will follow in the next few years.\u00a0 Joyless Joe Biden frowns. 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