{"id":2514,"date":"2010-02-23T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:47:54","slug":"marc-thiessen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2514","title":{"rendered":"Marc Thiessen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, a former Cheney speechwriter has become a respected expert on terrorism, mainly because he is a zealous advocate of torture.  Read a beautiful demolition of his bullshit <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77302\/marc-thiessen-truly-has-no-idea-what-hes-talking-about-on-interrogation\">here<\/a>.  Again, you are seeing why I have abandoned the Right.  He&#8217;s not just mistaken; <em>he&#8217;s deliberately lying<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(On another note, we&#8217;re learning <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/02\/footnote-28.html#more\">more<\/a> about the repulsive legal theories of John Yoo.  People keep asking me if I&#8217;m happy that Obama is President since I was so critical of Bush &#8212; even though I voted libertarian last time out.  Short answer?  Yes.  Even their massive expansion of government and the crushing debt we are facing is worth it if it ends the neo-tyranny that the Bushies embraced.<\/p>\n<p>And, frankly, I&#8217;m not convinced that the GOP wouldn&#8217;t be expanding government and running up debts any less than Obama.  That is, after all, what they did for <i>eight fucking years<\/i>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, a former Cheney speechwriter has become a respected expert on terrorism, mainly because he is a zealous advocate of torture. Read a beautiful demolition of his bullshit here. Again, you are seeing why I have abandoned the Right. He&#8217;s not just mistaken; he&#8217;s deliberately lying. (On another note, we&#8217;re learning more about the repulsive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marc Thiessen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Ey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}