{"id":1558,"date":"2007-03-14T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/03\/more_vd\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T16:00:37","slug":"more_vd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/03\/more_vd.html","title":{"rendered":"More VD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It  was two months ago that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2007\/01\/hes_baaack.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Ventriloquist Dummy<\/strong><\/font><\/a> claimed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasnews.com\/archive\/2007\/01\/19\/WashingtonDCBureau\/339684.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;good management&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> to justify the Justice Department&#8217;s political purge of  federal prosecutors. Now that his excuse has been exposed as one more Orwellian lie in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/14\/opinion\/14wed1.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>cynical grab for power<\/strong><\/font><\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>B<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>n<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>n<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>R<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>e<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>p<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>u<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>b<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>l<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>i<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>c<\/strong><\/font><\/a>&#8216;s very own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2007\/01\/time_for_him_to.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>President With His Head Up His Ass<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, the VD&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/14\/washington\/14mistakes.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>nonconfession<\/strong><\/font><\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/14\/washington\/14attorneys.html?hp\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;mistakes were made&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/01\/the_pure_malark.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>The Pure Malarkey of <i>Softspeak<\/i><\/strong><\/font><\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/01\/tortured_testim.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Tortured Testimony<\/strong><\/font><\/a> in January of 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was two months ago that the &#8220;good management&#8221; to justify the Justice Department&#8217;s political purge of federal prosecutors. Now that his excuse has been exposed as one more Orwellian lie in a BnnRpbiPresident With His Head Up His Ass, the VD&#8217;s &#8220;mistakes were made&#8221; reminds me of Tortured Testimony in January of 2005.<\/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-1558","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\/sbvgEs-more_vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","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=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}