{"id":187750,"date":"2011-03-14T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/14\/nice-to-see-this-getting-some-mainstream-coverage\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T22:21:00","slug":"nice-to-see-this-getting-some-mainstream-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/14\/nice-to-see-this-getting-some-mainstream-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice to See This Getting Some Mainstream Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the <i>Washington Post<\/i> or the <i>New York Times<\/i>, but my hometown paper, <i>The Baltimore Sun<\/i> has an Op\/Ed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/oped\/bs-ed-smith-20110310,0,136812.column\">Why is the United States torturing Private Manning<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>It is significant that a regular columnist, WBAL talk jock Ron Smith, both condemned the treatment, and used the word &#8220;Torture.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It is also significant that the members of the White House press corps(e) are actually starting question Obama on this<\/p>\n<p>Smith is described as a &#8220;Paleoconservative&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ron_Smith_%28radio_host%29\">Wikipedia<\/a>, though he had enough integrity to describe Bush, Jr. as &#8220;Joe Isuzu&#8221;, so it is likely that hostility to or distrust of Obama may have something to do with his opinions, but it is still significant that people are starting to use the word &#8220;torture&#8221; do describe what he calls, &#8221; the field-stripping of a young man&#8217;s mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the Washington Post or the New York Times, but my hometown paper, The Baltimore Sun has an Op\/Ed, Why is the United States torturing Private Manning? It is significant that a regular columnist, WBAL talk jock Ron Smith, both condemned the treatment, and used the word &#8220;Torture.&#8221; It is also significant that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maryland","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187750"}],"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=187750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}