{"id":44586,"date":"2012-06-29T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44586"},"modified":"2012-06-29T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:20:54","slug":"dennis-prager-if-you-worry-about-your-reputation-you-will-be-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44586","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager: &#8216;If You Worry About Your Reputation, You Will Be Liberal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show yesterday, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;In John Roberts, we have someone who was more concerned in this decision with the reputation of the court than with doing the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have gone against the obvious understanding to uphold something he acknowledges as unconstitutional as written, so he will understand it as something else [a tax], there must be another concern. And there is &#8212; the reputation of the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once you worry about your reputation, you will be liberal. That is a rule of American life. If you worry about your reputation, you will vote liberal, you will talk liberal and if you are a judge, you will rule liberal, because the Left writes contemporary history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One day in an autobiographical mood, I will tell you how it is has affected me and a decision I made early on, that if I wanted to say what I believed, I would have to withstand the opinions of entire communities that I was affiliated with.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show yesterday, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;In John Roberts, we have someone who was more concerned in this decision with the reputation of the court than with doing the right thing.&#8221; &#8220;To have gone against the obvious understanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44586\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44587,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44586\/revisions\/44587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}