{"id":185652,"date":"2014-09-17T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/17\/charlie-pierce-makes-chuck-norris-his-bitch\/"},"modified":"2014-09-17T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T23:50:00","slug":"charlie-pierce-makes-chuck-norris-his-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/17\/charlie-pierce-makes-chuck-norris-his-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Pierce Makes Chuck Norris his Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Mr. Norris, aficionado of martial arts, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Art_of_Coarse_Acting\">coarse acting<\/a>, and promulgating historical myths, accuses President Jimmy Carter of appeasing the Ayatollahs in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie pierce is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/Chuck_Norris_Eats_What_He_Wants_At_The_Stupid_Cafe\">having none of it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">You know what appeasing the ayatollahs looks like?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Promising them if they hold the hostages, they&#8217;ll get a better deal from another president. Unfreezing the assets almost as soon as you take the oath. Secretly selling them advanced weaponry because you had use for the profits of this illegal arms sale to fund an illegal war.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">That&#8217;s what appeasement looks like.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">And that wasn&#8217;t Carter.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">That was the next guy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is an <b>epic<\/b> take-down. <\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I am adding Mr. Pierce to the serene order of <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/People%20I%20Do%20Not%20Want%20to%20Piss%20Off\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">People I Do Not Want to Piss Off<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Mr. Norris, aficionado of martial arts, coarse acting, and promulgating historical myths, accuses President Jimmy Carter of appeasing the Ayatollahs in Iran. Charlie pierce is having none of it: You know what appeasing the ayatollahs looks like? Promising them if they hold the hostages, they&#8217;ll get a better deal from another president. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1011,1051,1028,1076,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-history","category-hypocrisy","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-terrorism","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185652"}],"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=185652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}