Maybe my ears failed me. It’s possible. Too many rock concerts? Too much time in the New
\nYork subway? A hearing test the other day revealed slight, high-frequency hearing loss due to
\nnerve damage. The doc wasn’t sure why. But I heard what I heard, and the only reason I wonder
\nabout it now is that I still find it hard to believe. <\/P>
\n
The president was on the tube making amends for not immediately expressing his sorrow over
\nthe death of 15 U.S. soldiers when their helicopter was shot down on Sunday. He began by
\noffering a generic statement about his heart going out to all the families of U.S. men and women
\nwho’ve died in the war on terror. <\/P>
\n
Perhaps he sensed that a generic statement was putting his foot in his mouth. He wanted to Maybe my ears failed me. It’s possible. Too many rock concerts? Too much time in the New York subway? A hearing test the other day revealed slight, high-frequency hearing loss due to nerve damage. The doc wasn’t sure why. But I heard what I heard, and the only reason I wonder about it now is […]<\/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-422","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-6O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nshow that he really meant what he said. So he pried his foot loose and became specific. “In this
\ncase,” he said, making an impromptu mid-course correction, he grieved for the
\nmen<\/EM> who lost their lives. Who said he couldn’t think on his feet? H\u00e9las,<\/I> as
\nthe French say, two of the 15 American G.I.’s who died on that helicopter were women. The
\npresident had merely compounded the error. He was generic and<\/I> misinformed.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"