{"id":1863,"date":"2011-05-17T20:24:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T03:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2011\/05\/now_this_is_rich\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T20:24:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T03:24:57","slug":"now_this_is_rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/05\/now_this_is_rich.html","title":{"rendered":"Now This Is Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surely you&#8217;ve read the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110516\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_libya;_ylt=Ar0dK3jJH7nP7wlPv3v8jISs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNjbWVwdWZnBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwNTE2L21sX2xpYnlhBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDNQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA3dhcmNyaW1lc3Bybw--\">Gadhafi is being sought for war crimes<\/a>. You may recall that America&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\">BananaRepublican gangsters<\/a> never committed any war crimes &#8212; not in Iraq and not in Afghanistan. Unlike Gadhafi, our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/warcriminalswatch.org\/index.php\/the-culpable\/36-the-culprits\">gang<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/warcriminalswatch.org\/index.php\/the-culpable\/36-the-culprits?start=20\">culprits<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2009\/04\/more_notes_from_nowhere.html\">above reproach<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> May 21 &#8212; Let this be a reminder: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/03\/by_the_numbers_stupidity_arrog.html\">Stupidity, Arrogance, Criminality<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>PPS:<\/strong> May 22 &#8212; The online edition of today&#8217;s NYT lead editorial, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/22\/opinion\/22sun1.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">Malign Neglect<\/a>, lacks the subhead of the print edition: &#8220;In declining a case brought by torture victims, the Supreme Court <em><strike>undermined<\/strike><\/em> <strong>confirmed<\/strong> the rule of <em><strike>law<\/strike> <strong>war criminals<\/strong>.&#8221;<br \/><\/em> <small>(Need I say strikeouts &#038; boldface added? &#8212; JH)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely you&#8217;ve read the news that Gadhafi is being sought for war crimes. You may recall that America&#8217;s BananaRepublican gangsters never committed any war crimes &#8212; not in Iraq and not in Afghanistan. Unlike Gadhafi, our very own gang of culprits is above reproach. Postscript: May 21 &#8212; Let this be a reminder: Stupidity, Arrogance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-u3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","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=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}