{"id":181603,"date":"2016-05-08T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/08\/im-calling-bullsh\/"},"modified":"2016-05-08T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T23:52:00","slug":"im-calling-bullsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/08\/im-calling-bullsh\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Calling Bullsh%$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Al-Masda<\/i>r news is reporting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almasdarnews.com\/article\/panama-papers-data-leak-king-saudi-arabia-sponsored-netanyahus-campaign\/\">the Panama Papers reveal that King Salman of the House of Saud laundered money which was donated to the Netanyahu campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Isaac Herzog, member of the Knesset and Chairman of the Israeli Labor party, revealed that Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz financed the election campaign of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are no other sources for this.<\/p>\n<p>The only other reports on the internet all link back to this source, and I have no information at all about tits reliability.<\/p>\n<p>I am not citing this to suggest that it is true.  I am citing this because my initial reaction was credulous, for about 45 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>This post is not about the report, but about my initial reaction.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered why my initial response was to believe.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that this is because what the Middle East is, a bag full of cats that you can smell crazy on, to paraphrase a popular movie from a few years back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Masdar news is reporting that the Panama Papers reveal that King Salman of the House of Saud laundered money which was donated to the Netanyahu campaign: Isaac Herzog, member of the Knesset and Chairman of the Israeli Labor party, revealed that Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz financed the election campaign of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,1031,1159,986,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-house-of-saud","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181603"}],"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=181603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}