{"id":6509,"date":"2009-06-04T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/06\/post-modern-acoustical-soothing-sounds\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:56:24","slug":"post-modern-acoustical-soothing-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/06\/post-modern-acoustical-soothing-sounds.html","title":{"rendered":"Post-Modern Acoustical Soothing Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As language becomes ever more meaningless, I sometimes think politicians will just get rid of words altogether and simply substitute noises that indicate various states of mood.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, when Catholics point out the crazy bigotry of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaresearch.org\/press\/2009\/press20090512-List.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Harry Knox<\/a>, who dementedly calls the Knight of Columbus an \u201carmy of oppression\u201d, as well as sundry other sample of anti-Catholic nuttery, the Administration responds that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/public\/content\/article.aspx?RsrcID=49008\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the president is comfortable with the makeup of his faith advisory council<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>It is, of course, consoling to know that a corn-fed Baby Boomer is feeling comfortable about himself.  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