{"id":419,"date":"2003-11-07T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T19:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/11\/connect_the_dots\/"},"modified":"2003-11-07T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T19:27:35","slug":"connect_the_dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/11\/connect_the_dots.html","title":{"rendered":"CONNECT THE DOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for an upbeat way to begin the weekend ain’t easy … <\/P>
\n

Not when another helicopter has gone down in Iraq, this time killing six American soldiers<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> … <\/P>
\n

Not when the death toll has risen from 15 to 16<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in Sunday’s
\nhelicopter shoot-down … <\/P>
\n

Not when Shrub’s rush to war in Iraq looks increasingly like a high-level conspiracy to ignore any other
\noption<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> … <\/P>
\n

Not when Jessica Lynch says she feels “used” by the U.S. military,<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>
\nwhich “lied” about her and “manipulated” her story … <\/P>
\n

Not when the independent 9\/11 commission may have to subpoena Oval Office documents Shrub and his
\nminions are still withholding<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> from its investigation of intelligence
\nfailures involving the 9\/11 attacks, because Shrub has reneged on his promise to cooperate fully …
\n<\/P>
\n

Not when Der Gropenfuhrer of Culifornia says he’ll hire a private eye to investigate charges
\nmade against him by women who claim he sexually assaulted them, but <\nEM>he may not turn over the results<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> to the
\nstate’s attorney general because he distrusts him …<\/P>
\n

Not when mendacity was the theme of the week and not just the refrain of both Tennessee
\nWilliams’ southern-fried patriarch, Big Daddy, and Big Daddy’s son, Brick the Thick, in the
\nflawed Broadway revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin
\nRoof”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> …<\/P>
\n

POSTSCRIPT:<\/STRONG> It is Saturday morning. Words that might as well
\nbe emblazoned in Times Square — “we have here another depressing example of official
\nmendacity” — pop out at me from this morning’s lead editorial in The New York Times. Read it:
\n“The Fruits of Secrecy.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> It’s about more of this
\nweek’s lies, i.e., Bush’s broken vow to protect the environment.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for an upbeat way to begin the weekend ain’t easy … Not when another helicopter has gone down in Iraq, this time killing six American soldiers … Not when the death toll has risen from 15 to 16 in Sunday’s helicopter shoot-down … Not when Shrub’s rush to war in Iraq looks increasingly like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-419","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-6L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}