{"id":180739,"date":"2017-01-18T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/18\/another-john-carpenter-moment\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T23:42:00","slug":"another-john-carpenter-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/18\/another-john-carpenter-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Another John Carpenter Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I noted that after almost 35 years, I was finally<\/span><\/b> more horrified and disgusted than Palmer was in the 1982 version of the movie The Thing<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Who knew that the mixture of horror and disgust at Betsy Devos would be exceeded in the next day.<\/p>\n

Specifically Judith Miller tweeted her horror at the commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence:<\/p>\n

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Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning. How many people died because of manning’ leak? https:\/\/t.co\/WrijBtp4fo<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2014 Judith Miller (@JMfreespeech) January 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This engendered the following observation from Jason Concepcion:<\/p>\n

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don’t worry, no one can touch your high score https:\/\/t.co\/2pzkm7dHEz<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2014 \u2615netw3rk (@netw3rk) January 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those of you who don’t recall, during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Judith Miller, then a New York Times<\/i> reporter was desperately shilling for the Bush administration (Google Judith Miller Curveball<\/a>) and was typing up anything and everything that she could find, without regard to classification to help them.<\/p>\n

So, 4,424 US Soldiers dead<\/a>, and around 500,000 Iraqis dead<\/a>, because of her casual handling of classified material, and her even more casual handling of the truth, and suddenly<\/b>, she’s concerned about the body counts.<\/p>\n

Why she isn’t selling perfume one cash register over from Janet Cooke for a living is completely beyond me.<\/p>\n

H\/t Naked Capitalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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