{"id":1331,"date":"2005-11-23T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/11\/blowjob_please\/"},"modified":"2005-11-23T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T17:12:47","slug":"blowjob_please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/11\/blowjob_please.html","title":{"rendered":"BLOWJOB, PLEASE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/tm_objectid=16401707%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=law%2dchief%2dgags%2dthe%2dmirror%2don%2dbush%2dleak-name_page.html\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"British tabloid reveals five-page memo stamped Top Secret\" src=\"http:\/\/images.icnetwork.co.uk\/upl\/m2\/nov2005\/0\/8\/000CCF70-C894-1382-AB730C01AC1BF814.jpg\" width=160 align=right border= 0 \/><\/a>The latest leak of a British memo &#8212; stamped &#8220;Top Secret,&#8221; it records a threat by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/08\/jim_holts_criti.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Bullshitter-in-Chief<\/strong><\/font><\/a> to bomb an Arab TV station in Qatar, a key Gulf ally &#8212; is one more reason to ask (along with the protesters, below): &#8220;Would somebody please just give him a blowjob so we can get him impeached?! Somebody?!&#8221;<br \/>\nYesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/tm_objectid=16401707%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=law%2dchief%2dgags%2dthe%2dmirror%2don%2dbush%2dleak-name_page.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>front page of the Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, right,  headlined a report that told how, last year, &#8220;Tony Blair talked [the  Bullshitter] out of attacking satellite station al-Jazeera&#8217;s HQ in friendly Qatar.&#8221; Now the British government has warned the  tab &#8220;not to publish further details&#8221; of the memo or face prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. &#8220;It is believed to be the first time the Blair government has threatened newspapers in this way,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,1648590,00.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>The Guardian reports today.<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<center><img alt=\"Would somebody please just give him a blowjob so we can get him impeached?! Somebody?!\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/blowjobforbush.jpg\" width=450 border=0 \/><\/center><br \/>\nThe British government claims the Bullshitter was only joking, and nobody took him seriously. So why not let us see the rest of the memo? We know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/11\/news_notes.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>he&#8217;s a doofus<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. One more bad joke won&#8217;t hurt us even if it&#8217;s liable to give us indigestion. (We&#8217;re going to enjoy Thanksgiving anyway.)<br \/>\n<i> &#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullshitter-in-Chief to bomb an Arab TV station in Qatar, a key Gulf ally &#8212; is one more reason to ask (along with the protesters, below): &#8220;Would somebody please just give him a blowjob so we can get him impeached?! Somebody?!&#8221; Yesterday&#8217;s The Guardian reports today. The British government claims the Bullshitter was only joking, and [&hellip;]<\/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-1331","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-lt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}