{"id":1527,"date":"2007-01-05T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/01\/more_popcorn\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T12:06:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T20:06:43","slug":"more_popcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/01\/more_popcorn.html","title":{"rendered":"More Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s true he hasn&#8217;t seen the video of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s execution, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/05\/world\/middleeast\/05policy.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>White House claims<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, will somebody please explain why not? Is it because it would offend his compassionate soul? Or is it because he would have to describe how he felt about it? And you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YPuLf4aUT4Q\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>what a mumbler he is<\/strong><\/font><\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/video\/2006\/12\/30\/VI2006123000412.html\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"Video image released by Iraqi state television [AP Photo\/IRAQI TV, HO]. Click for not-so-raw video.\" src=\"http:\/\/cmsimg.herald-dispatch.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Site=C1&#038;Date=20061230&#038;Category=NEWS01&#038;ArtNo=612300350&#038;Ref=AR&#038;Profile=1005&#038;MaxW=315&#038;Border=0\" width=220 align=right border=0 \/><\/a>He&#8217;s already said what he&#8217;s been told to say by his handlers. (The execution should have been &#8220;more dignified.&#8221;) Presumably, they saw the video. But shouldn&#8217;t he see for himself what millions of others have seen? If he&#8217;s too sensitive to watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>raw execution video<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, he could watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/video\/2006\/12\/30\/VI2006123000412.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>not-so raw video<\/strong><\/font><\/a>.<br \/>\nShouldn&#8217;t he know first-hand what&#8217;s happening before he makes next week&#8217;s do-over speech about his latest &#8220;new&#8221; strategy for Iraq? (Not that it would make a difference.) Or has he watched the execution video, while munching on popcorn, and that&#8217;s a national security secret?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s true he hasn&#8217;t seen the video of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s execution, as the what a mumbler he is. raw execution video, he could watch the<\/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-1527","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-oD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","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=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}