{"id":199287,"date":"2007-08-16T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/16\/omfg-journalism-practiced-here\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T05:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T10:27:00","slug":"omfg-journalism-practiced-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/16\/omfg-journalism-practiced-here\/","title":{"rendered":"OMFG!!!!!  Journalism Practiced Here!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even more amazing, it has been practiced by the normally quite hacktacular Nedra Pickler in debunking a right wing troll storm.<\/p>\n<p>A few days back, Obama said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we&#8217;re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not only is this an accurate assessment, the US tactics are bad enough that the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/brits-to-us-sod-off-in-afghanistan.html\">Brits want US troops and aircraft out of their sector<\/a> because they are generating too much support for the Taliban through their indiscriminate bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Now we see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070814\/ap_on_el_pr\/obama_afghanistan_fact_check;_ylt=Ah.wIuxTShSPjiKjHpflfq6s0NUE\">a real fact check<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>As of Aug. 1, the AP count shows that while militants killed 231 civilians in attacks in 2007, Western forces killed 286. Another 20 were killed in crossfire that can&#8217;t be attributed to one party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even more amazing, it has been practiced by the normally quite hacktacular Nedra Pickler in debunking a right wing troll storm. A few days back, Obama said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we&#8217;re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199287"}],"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=199287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}