{"id":781,"date":"2004-08-25T01:19:17","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T08:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/08\/still_laughing\/"},"modified":"2004-08-25T01:19:17","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T08:19:17","slug":"still_laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/08\/still_laughing.html","title":{"rendered":"STILL LAUGHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>How cozy it all is: Rummy Boy&#8217;s &#8220;leadership of the Pentagon has been weighed by a jury of<br \/>\nhis peers and found somewhat wanting,&#8221; <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A30099-2004Aug24.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>The Washington Post reported<\/FONT> <FONT\ncolor=#003399>today<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. But the conclusion of &#8220;the blue-ribbon panel&#8221; &#8212;<br \/>\nappointed by Rummy Boy to review the role of the Pentagon in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal,<br \/>\nand&nbsp;led by former Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger &#8212;&nbsp;&#8220;does not appear to<br \/>\nthreaten Rumsfeld&#8217;s position as defense secretary, especially because all four panel members<br \/>\nemphatically rejected the idea of calling for his resignation.&#8221; This is separate from the latest <A\nclass=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20040801.shtml#85476\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Army investigation<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, which failed<br \/>\nto sanction Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez. <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060195916\/qid=1093374540\/sr=ka-1\/ref=pd\n_ka_1\/102-5747989-6952921\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Sy<br \/>\nHersh<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> must still be laughing.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How cozy it all is: Rummy Boy&#8217;s &#8220;leadership of the Pentagon has been weighed by a jury of his peers and found somewhat wanting,&#8221; The Washington Post reported today. But the conclusion of &#8220;the blue-ribbon panel&#8221; &#8212; appointed by Rummy Boy to review the role of the Pentagon in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and&nbsp;led [&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-781","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-cB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}