{"id":53336,"date":"2016-10-23T21:02:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53336"},"modified":"2016-10-23T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:02:25","slug":"on-targeting-as-a-mood-this-electoral-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53336","title":{"rendered":"On targeting as a mood this electoral season, 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; the only virtue I can see in this darkness is that the light contrasts with it ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I find this frankly horrifying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sold at Trump rally at Regent U <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NB57JJlQHV\">pic.twitter.com\/NB57JJlQHV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Montgomery (@petemont) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petemont\/status\/789894263542657026\">October 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, at a supposedly <strong>Christian<\/strong> university?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Feh<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Mark you, I think targeting an individual &#8212; any individual &#8211;in this way is very different from targeting contested seats in an election. I can understand both Democrats and Republicans using the imagery of targets or cross-hairs to suggest where they&#8217;d like their supporters to get active, get out the vote and win seats..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/acceptable-or-not-1.jpg\" alt=\"acceptable-or-not\" width=\"599\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/acceptable-or-not-1.jpg 599w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/acceptable-or-not-1-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I said as much in <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45684\">On sneers, smears, and mutual sniping<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neither \u201ctargetting\u201d political adversaries nor \u201chaving them in your crosshairs\u201d equates to killing or there would have been a whole lot more attempted assassinations \u2014 just the one was bad enough.<\/p>\n<p>Have some proportion, people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>However, as an inveterate <strong>DoubleTweeter<\/strong> I  have to say that pinning targets or cross-hairs on individual leaders in highly charged political disputes speaks a wholly different language, and presents a far higher threat level, than targeting districts on an electoral map:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Similar images from Israel before Rabin&#39;s assassination in 1995: Netanyahu also fostered environment of hatred  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjwerleman\">@cjwerleman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petemont\">@petemont<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yZN85dT3If\">pic.twitter.com\/yZN85dT3If<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Post Doc wanter (@derridalicious) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derridalicious\/status\/789958814539796480\">October 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I find this no less offensive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Trump-target.png\" alt=\"trump-target\" width=\"450\" height=\"558\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Trump-target.png 450w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Trump-target-242x300.png 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; the only virtue I can see in this darkness is that the light contrasts with it ] . I find this frankly horrifying: Sold at Trump rally at Regent U pic.twitter.com\/NB57JJlQHV &mdash; Peter Montgomery (@petemont) October 22, 2016 This, at a supposedly Christian university? Feh. ** Mark you, I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1431,526,497,1314,627,1151,34,415,184,635,783,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assassination","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-donald-trump","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-education","category-elections","category-hillary-clinton","category-israel","category-threat","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53336"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53350,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53336\/revisions\/53350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}