{"id":192256,"date":"2009-04-23T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/23\/we-have-entered-bizarro-world-part-ii-of-many\/"},"modified":"2009-04-23T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T00:50:00","slug":"we-have-entered-bizarro-world-part-ii-of-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/23\/we-have-entered-bizarro-world-part-ii-of-many\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have Entered Bizarro World: Part II of Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, Shepard Smith of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Fox News<\/span> pounding the table and saying, &#8220;We don&#8217;t f&amp;^$ing torture?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aEtFMj6ZiHM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aEtFMj6ZiHM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>Interestingly enough, the big issue here is not Shepard Smith showing common decency, but the fact that we are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">all<\/span> using the word &#8220;torture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It changes the dialogue to use that word, and makes it clear just how repulsive the whole concept is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, Shepard Smith of Fox News pounding the table and saying, &#8220;We don&#8217;t f&amp;^$ing torture?&#8221; Interestingly enough, the big issue here is not Shepard Smith showing common decency, but the fact that we are all using the word &#8220;torture&#8221;. It changes the dialogue to use that word, and makes it clear just how repulsive 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":[1064,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192256"}],"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=192256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}