{"id":182946,"date":"2015-04-29T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/29\/nice-job-of-abusing-your-interns\/"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:56:00","slug":"nice-job-of-abusing-your-interns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/29\/nice-job-of-abusing-your-interns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Job of Abusing Your Interns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Chait decided to determine how many times that <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/04\/61-times-kristol-reminded-of-hitler-churchill.html\">conservative legacy admission William Kristol invoked Hitler, Churchill, Chamberlain and Munich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, writing in opposition to the Iran deal recently, observed, \u201cOne is reminded \u2014 as one so often is these days \u2014 of Churchill\u2019s great speech in Commons after Munich &#8230; \u201d It is true that Kristol is often reminded of Churchill and Munich these days. This may not tell us anything about the current situation with Iran, however, since Kristol is reminded of Churchill and Munich on a great many days. It is a historic reference he has used to explain a great many episodes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">I recently asked New York interns Claire Landsbaum and Claire Voon to compile a list of Kristol\u2019s public references to the Munich agreement and its main players. This research ordeal, presented in reverse chronological order, represents the sort of character-building exercise, I am sure Kristol would agree, that today\u2019s youth badly need.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, I think that you are torturing Claire Landsbaum and Claire Voon.<\/p>\n<p>Forcing them to read everything that Bill Kristol has written back to at least 1997 constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Chait decided to determine how many times that conservative legacy admission William Kristol invoked Hitler, Churchill, Chamberlain and Munich: Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, writing in opposition to the Iran deal recently, observed, \u201cOne is reminded \u2014 as one so often is these days \u2014 of Churchill\u2019s great speech in Commons after Munich &#8230; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1048,1129,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-journalism","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182946"}],"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=182946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}