{"id":817,"date":"2004-09-17T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T16:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/09\/when_will_the_voters_get_it\/"},"modified":"2004-09-17T09:41:34","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T16:41:34","slug":"when_will_the_voters_get_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/09\/when_will_the_voters_get_it.html","title":{"rendered":"WHEN WILL THE VOTERS GET IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The turning point of the presidential campaign? The blockbuster that changes minds? The
\nclincher that tells the truth? It ought to be. Iraq is a disaster — at best unstable for years to come,
\nat worst headed for civil war. As noted yesterday in DARK DAYS AHEAD<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, that’s
\nwhat the Nincompoop in Chief was told in July by his top intelligence people. That’s not what he’s
\ntelling the American people. He’s telling the exact opposite. “Freedom is on the march,” he says.
\nThe man is lying. It’s more basic than living in a “fantasy world of spin.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> (Great
\nphrase, but too polite by half.) “He failed to tell you the truth.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Full stop.<\/P>
\n

Postscript:<\/STRONG> James Wolcott makes the point nicely in “Attack Pussy.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
 <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The turning point of the presidential campaign? The blockbuster that changes minds? The clincher that tells the truth? It ought to be. Iraq is a disaster — at best unstable for years to come, at worst headed for civil war. As noted yesterday in DARK DAYS AHEAD, that’s what the Nincompoop in Chief was told […]<\/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-817","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-db","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}