{"id":610,"date":"2004-04-05T02:39:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T09:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/harmonic_conditions\/"},"modified":"2004-04-05T02:39:22","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T09:39:22","slug":"harmonic_conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/harmonic_conditions.html","title":{"rendered":"HARMONIC CONDITIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>We all know the Maximum Leader and his Crony in Chief will sing a private duet for the 9\/11<br \/>\ncommission. But in case we forgot, <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/?040412ta_talk_hertzberg\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Hendrik Hertzberg reminds us<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in today&#8217;s New Yorker<br \/>\nof two unpublicized conditions set by the White House: &#8220;There will be no official electronic<br \/>\nrecording&#8221; of their testimony &#8220;and there will be no transcript.&#8221; <B>Question:<\/B> Do you<br \/>\nsuppose that&#8217;s because the White House believes in transparency, open government and telling the<br \/>\ntruth, or because the pair might sing off-key? <B>Answer:<\/B> Eleanor Clift&#8217;s terrific piece in<br \/>\nNewsweek about <A href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4653858\/\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;the Wizard of Oz&#8221; letter<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, which&nbsp;&#8220;strips away<br \/>\nthe myth that Bush is in charge.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know the Maximum Leader and his Crony in Chief will sing a private duet for the 9\/11 commission. But in case we forgot, Hendrik Hertzberg reminds us in today&#8217;s New Yorker of two unpublicized conditions set by the White House: &#8220;There will be no official electronic recording&#8221; of their testimony &#8220;and there will [&hellip;]<\/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-610","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-9Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}