{"id":491,"date":"2005-02-05T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T14:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2005\/02\/makes_you_wanna_holler\/"},"modified":"2005-02-05T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T14:03:06","slug":"makes_you_wanna_holler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2005\/02\/makes_you_wanna_holler\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKES YOU WANNA HOLLER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush committed fraud during the debates. Lindorff ran this story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2004\/10\/13\/transmitter\/index_np.html\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/A>, but what I want to know is: why isn&#8217;t this STILL a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/index.php?page=2012\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/A>? <BR><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI can appreciate the broader factors weighing on the paper\u2019s top editors, particularly that close to the election. But personally, I think that Nelson\u2019s assertions did rise above the level of garden-variety speculation, mainly because of who he is. Here was a veteran government scientist, whose decades-long career revolves around interpreting imagery like features of Mars, who decided to say very publicly that, without reservation, he was convinced there was something under a president\u2019s jacket when the White House said there was nothing. He essentially put his hard-won reputation utterly on the line (not to mention his job) in doing so and certainly with little prospect that he might gain something as a result\u2014except, as he put it, his preserved integrity&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If a major university had given this guy a degree and later found that he had an earpiece on during his oral exams, they&#8217;d rescind his diploma. We, as this man&#8217;s employers, deserve at least an explanation. Very dispiriting to think there are Republicans covering this up even now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush committed fraud during the debates. Lindorff ran this story in Salon, but what I want to know is: why isn&#8217;t this STILL a story? I can appreciate the broader factors weighing on the paper\u2019s top editors, particularly that close to the election. But personally, I think that Nelson\u2019s assertions did rise above the level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}