{"id":183886,"date":"2012-10-24T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/24\/joke-line-is-a-sociopath\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:11:00","slug":"joke-line-is-a-sociopath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/24\/joke-line-is-a-sociopath\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke Line Is a Sociopath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/oct\/23\/klein-drones-morning-joe\">watches <i>Morning Joe<\/i> so we don&#8217;t have to<\/a>, and finds this lovely quote from Joe Klein (aka Joke Line):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If it is misused, and there is a really major possibility of abuse if you have the wrong people running the government. <b>But: the bottom line in the end is &#8211; whose 4-year-old get killed? What we&#8217;re doing is limiting the possibility that 4-year-olds here will get killed by indiscriminate acts of terror<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis original<\/i>)As Greenwald notes, this mimics the language used by the Times Square bomber and Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald watches Morning Joe so we don&#8217;t have to, and finds this lovely quote from Joe Klein (aka Joke Line): &#8220;If it is misused, and there is a really major possibility of abuse if you have the wrong people running the government. But: the bottom line in the end is &#8211; whose 4-year-old get &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1002,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183886"}],"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=183886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}