{"id":190114,"date":"2010-01-05T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/05\/read-the-rude-pundit-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:47:00","slug":"read-the-rude-pundit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/05\/read-the-rude-pundit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Rude Pundit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s a genius, as he shows in his latest, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rudepundit.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/it-shouldnt-surprise-us-that-some-ex.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">It Shouldn&#8217;t Surprise Us that Some Ex-<span>Gitmo<\/span> Detainees Want to F%$# Us Up<\/span><\/a>.&#8221;  (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">%$# mine<\/span>):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>We are incapable of dealing with the notion that whether you&#8217;re the good guy or the bad guy is a matter of perception. And that sometimes the United States is the bad guy. Unless we&#8217;re willing to confront that and do something about it (like, at minimum, apologize and offer compensation), then we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that Yemeni Mel <span>Gibsons<\/span> will seek to go all Lethal Weapon on us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The man is a genius, if somewhat profane.<\/p>\n<p>Go read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s a genius, as he shows in his latest, &#8220;It Shouldn&#8217;t Surprise Us that Some Ex-Gitmo Detainees Want to F%$# Us Up.&#8221; (%$# mine): We are incapable of dealing with the notion that whether you&#8217;re the good guy or the bad guy is a matter of perception. And that sometimes the United States is 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":[1052,1002,1076,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-good-writing","category-terrorism","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190114"}],"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=190114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}