{"id":2334,"date":"2010-01-12T04:23:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T08:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2013-03-01T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:46:09","slug":"republican-attack-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/01\/12\/republican-attack-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda Talking Points?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are prominent right-wingers acting as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_01\/021866.php\"> unpaid PR agents for al Qaeda,<\/a> in their zeal to undermine Obama?  <\/p>\n<p>In a word &#8212; yes!  After all, the purpose of terrorism is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/10\/AR2010011002143.html \">scare people into overreaction.<\/a>  So when GOP attack dogs like Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Michael Steele,  Bill Kristol,  Pete King, Pete Hoekstra, Jim DeMint and countless others  characterize a failed terrorist attack as a success and try to terrify the public, they are unwittingly helping al Qaeda. <\/p>\n<p>That leads me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qaeda Talking Points?<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Michael and Peter and Dick,<br \/>\nYour Obama vendetta is sick.<br \/>\nCuz behavior like yours &#8212;<br \/>\nTurning flops into scores &#8212;<br \/>\nCreates fear, which makes terrorists tick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are prominent right-wingers acting as unpaid PR agents for al Qaeda, in their zeal to undermine Obama? In a word &#8212; yes! After all, the purpose of terrorism is to scare people into overreaction. So when GOP attack dogs like Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Michael Steele, Bill Kristol, Pete King, Pete Hoekstra, Jim DeMint and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,174,16,21,8,20,820,717,526,719,1040,1079,6,7,3,9,27,17],"tags":[1043,759,2818,2760,1080,822,2850,2838,200,2865,2867,2766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9202,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/9202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}