{"id":38381,"date":"2019-08-09T23:13:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38381"},"modified":"2019-08-09T23:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T23:13:06","slug":"watching-the-name-calling-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38381","title":{"rendered":"Watching the name-calling &#8230; oh, my"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23HighPlainsBlogger%20%23RobertMueller%20%23civildiscourse&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogging-e1484908296381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37645\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogging-e1484908296381-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogging-e1484908296381-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogging-e1484908296381.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am having another one of those blogger&#8217;s out-of-body experiences.<\/p>\n<p>I posted an item about Robert Mueller, Donald Trump and the report the former special counsel filed about his lengthy probe into alleged &#8220;collusion&#8221; with Russians who attacked our election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Two readers of the blog responded. They are lefties. A rightie responded to one of them. One of the lefties responded to the rightie.<\/p>\n<p>One of the respondents started bastardizing one of other&#8217;s names. Then came the profanities. They started using foul language in describing each others&#8217; intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;m staying out of it. Not my fight.<\/p>\n<p>The arguments stayed (more or less) on topic, although not entirely.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this is my way of wishing these respondents would cease the personal attacks on each other. None of that furthers anyone&#8217;s argument. They end up talking past each other.<\/p>\n<p>I might be spitting into the wind on this one.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of folks take rebuttals quite personally. In the exchange that has been occurring over the past couple of days, I totally understand how either side can take offense at what the other guy is telling them.<\/p>\n<p>Witnessing all of this as if I&#8217;m sitting in the peanut gallery just fills me with resolve to try like the dickens to stay civil with those who criticize my musings.<\/p>\n<p>So \u2026 the beat goes on.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23HighPlainsBlogger%20%23RobertMueller%20%23civildiscourse&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am having another one of those blogger&#8217;s out-of-body experiences. I posted an item about Robert Mueller, Donald Trump and the report the former special counsel filed about his lengthy probe into alleged &#8220;collusion&#8221; with Russians who attacked our election in 2016. Two readers of the blog responded. They are lefties. A rightie responded to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watching the name-calling &#8230; oh, my<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8852,7131,2122,3983],"class_list":["post-38381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-civil-debate","tag-collusion","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-robert-mueller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38382,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381\/revisions\/38382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}