{"id":179794,"date":"2017-10-23T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/23\/item-number-1033-of-things-that-i-thought-i-would-never-say\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T02:57:00","slug":"item-number-1033-of-things-that-i-thought-i-would-never-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/23\/item-number-1033-of-things-that-i-thought-i-would-never-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Item Number 1033 of Things that I Thought I Would Never Say*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2017\/10\/gen-petraeus-rebukes-white-house-we\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">David Petraeus seizes the moral high ground<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Yeah, I cannot believe that I just said that, but everyone&#8217;s favorite philandering self-important martinet just slapped down the Trump administration for saying that reporters should not fact check Trump&#8217;s chief of staff, John Kelly, on his the lies that he spewed a few days back.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\/video\/cia-director-gen-david-petraeus-50642306\">ABC&#8217;s THIS WEEK host Martha Raddatz<\/a> began her interview by asking Gen. Petraeus about this incident. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to start with what the White House said, about it being highly inappropriate to debate a four-star general,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Petraeus replied, &#8220;Well, I think we&#8217;re all fair game.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;We, in uniform, protect the rights of those to criticize us, frankly.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We live in strange times.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">The number one thing that I thought I would never say remains, as always, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40\/40v13n1.pdf\">It\u2019s not buffet time at the Wildebeest<\/a>.&#8221;  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Petraeus seizes the moral high ground. Yeah, I cannot believe that I just said that, but everyone&#8217;s favorite philandering self-important martinet just slapped down the Trump administration for saying that reporters should not fact check Trump&#8217;s chief of staff, John Kelly, on his the lies that he spewed a few days back. ABC&#8217;s THIS &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,387,379,374,403,421],"class_list":["post-179794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-hypocrisy","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-wanker","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}