{"id":1269,"date":"2005-09-27T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/09\/true_believers\/"},"modified":"2005-09-27T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T20:26:26","slug":"true_believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/09\/true_believers.html","title":{"rendered":"TRUE BELIEVERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Hitchens (who objects to the phoney peaceniks<\/strong><\/font><\/a> of the antiwar protest in Washington — he’s especially incensed by Ramsey Clark) and Jinx McHue (the latest reader to write us that Jeb Eddy is no Republican, see Wizbang!<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, Chronwatch<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and Shock & Blog<\/font><\/strong><\/a>, but rather “a big, fat, liberal phony — but that’s being redundant, isn’t it?”) both make the case that the press can’t be trusted to clarify the issues or even to lay out the facts because it’s biased, stupid, easily fooled and, not least, amnesiac.
\nIn answer to which — oblique ripostes, admittedly — we offer two poems inspired by columnists whose writings we believe to be fair, smart, fully informed and equipped with thorough data bases:
\nHARDING DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN<\/strong><\/font><\/a>
\nHarding! Harding! Harding!
\nChampion of hearth and home!
\nYou live once more in the White House,
\nAnd we’re back to Teapot Dome.
\nBLEST AND BRIGHTEST<\/strong><\/font><\/a>
\n“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job,”
\nAnd indeed he is, as are Rumsfeld and Rove
\nAnd Safavian (oops, the guy is in cuffs)
\nAlong with Scott Armey — all Bushies we love.
\n— Leon Freilich<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/i>
\nAnd this, from Mort Subiet’s boot hill<\/font><\/strong><\/a>, otherwise known as “boot hell.”
\n— Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christopher Hitchens (who Wizbang!, Shock & Blog, but rather “a big, fat, liberal phony — but that’s being redundant, isn’t it?”) both make the case that the press can’t be trusted to clarify the issues or even to lay out the facts because it’s biased, stupid, easily fooled and, not least, amnesiac. In answer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-kt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}