{"id":1192,"date":"2005-11-18T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T05:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2005-11-18T23:50:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T05:50:29","slug":"en-fuego-erics-grumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"En Fuego: Eric’s Grumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having made my position our media repeatedly clear, I’ll let Eric<\/a> hammer on them for their current sins of omission.<\/p>\n

First, he tags them with a left hook<\/a> for some blatant amnesia about Clinton-era concerns about Iraq:<\/p>\n

For more than two years now we have continuously had it pounded into our heads that there was no real linkage between al-Qaeda and Iraq, that Iraq had nothing to do with 9\/11, that Osama bin Laden detested secular Iraq and would never work with them. What you may not know, even though it is in the 9\/11 Commission’s report, is that Richard Clarke, the top counter-terrorism official in the later years of the Clinton Administration, didn’t agree with that point of view. And that there is reasonable evidence to support Clarke’s point of view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it. Then Eric throws a right cross<\/a> at poll-number coverage:<\/p>\n

So, why isn’t the media, generally, telling the story that has existed at least since August? Yes, the President’s poll numbers are low, but so is the entire mainstream political structure. Now, why do you suppose the media isn’t pointing that out every time they run a story on the poll numbers? The fact is, people are disgusted with everybody in Washington. But, interestingly, they aren’t as disgusted with the President as the Congress and the political parties. That, of course, doesn’t fit the meme being pushed by certain quarters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go let Eric grumble at ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having made my position our media repeatedly clear, I’ll let Eric hammer on them for their current sins of omission. First, he tags them with a left hook for some blatant amnesia about Clinton-era concerns about Iraq: For more than two years now we have continuously had it pounded into our heads that there was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,23,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-media","category-middle-east","category-my-blogroll","category-politics","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}