{"id":421,"date":"2007-06-13T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T11:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/what-you-are-vs-who-you-are\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T13:04:16","slug":"what-you-are-vs-who-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"WHAT you are vs. WHO you are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I guess for all of the reasons that perky Katie Couric gave us for not watching her host the nightly news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0f66ef42-1925-11dc-a961-000b5df10621.html\" target=\"_blank\">the reason\u00c2\u00a0her boss\u00c2\u00a0chose to blame is good old convenient &#8220;sexism<\/a>&#8220;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sort of surprised by the vitriol against her. The number of people who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want news from a woman was startling,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr Moonves said of the audience\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction to Ms Couric, who this month brought ratings for the CBS Evening News to a 20-year low.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It couldn&#8217;t be because she presents Leftist commentary as hard news, could it? Or maybe her perkiness plays well to stay-at-home moms early in the morning, but not to working people who watch evening news. Nope, it&#8217;s gotta be because she&#8217;s a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Just like when the Democrats charged America with being anti-Semites when we didn&#8217;t elect Joe Lieberman as Vice-President. (But somehow it isn&#8217;t racism when they treat him the way they have the last few years) The Left is more concerned about WHAT a person is than WHO a person is.<\/p>\n<p>If you speak ill of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re a racist &#8211; not because you can recognize a hustler when you see one (or two). If you report suspicious behavior of a group of imams, it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re an Islamophobe, not because you&#8217;re scared of crashing into a building during your flight home.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00c2\u00a0I was in college (at the age of 39), I mentioned to my professor that I&#8217;d leave the country if Hillary Clinton became President. A co-ed overheard the comment and charged me with being a sexist. I tried to explain that I&#8217;d leave the country because I don&#8217;t want to live\u00c2\u00a0under a socialistic government &#8211; but of course there was no explaining &#8211; I was a sexist because I didn&#8217;t like Hillary Clinton for WHAT she is, rather than WHO she is. But now I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/06\/11\/AR2007061102216.html\" target=\"_blank\">women support her 2:1 over Obama&#8217;s female support<\/a>. I guess there&#8217;s no sexism or racism involved there, huh?<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s only natural for people to avoid confronting their own shortcomings by blaming\u00c2\u00a0them on other people&#8217;s shortcomings, but sometimes people don&#8217;t like you for WHO you are. Trust me on this &#8211; alot of you are jerks and no one has ever told you.<\/p>\n<p>Nah, sorry, Les, but CBS bet on the wrong pony &#8211; perky Katie Couric is a poor newsperson. That&#8217;s not America&#8217;s fault; it was a bad business decision from the get-go. And it&#8217;s not like you weren&#8217;t warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I guess for all of the reasons that perky Katie Couric gave us for not &hellip; <a title=\"WHAT you are vs. WHO you are\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=421\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHAT you are vs. WHO you are<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}