{"id":39,"date":"2007-03-09T11:28:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-03-09T11:28:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T17:28:17","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing the news&#8230;.<\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m shocked, SHOCKED that the FBI is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LAW\/03\/09\/security.letters\/index.html\">abusing<\/a> the power given to them in the Patriot Act.  Wait, you mean we can&#8217;t just punt our civil liberties and hope that the government will play nice?<\/li>\n<li>Expect the left to go apeshit over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/03\/08\/gingrich.affair.ap\/index.html\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> having an affair during the Clinton scandal.  Of course, Newt didn&#8217;t grope women in hallways, expose himself to an employee and lie under oath.  But don&#8217;t expect that subtlety to show up on Daily Kos or Huffpo.  It will also be forgotten how the Clinton &#8220;we need to end the politics of personal destruction&#8221; personal destruction machine was after Gingrich from day one, circulating an exaggerated story of him serving his first wife divorce papers on her hospital bed.<\/li>\n<li>You know, when Bill Clinton slimed his opponent, that was bare-knuckle politics.  When the Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/03\/09\/congress.prosecutors.ap\/index.html\">does it<\/a>, it&#8217;s something else.  I&#8217;m glad Bush has backed off and hopefully it will turn out that these <em>are<\/em> disgruntled ex-employees mouthing off.  But I doubt it.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing the news&#8230;. I&#8217;m shocked, SHOCKED that the FBI is abusing the power given to them in the Patriot Act. Wait, you mean we can&#8217;t just punt our civil liberties and hope that the government will play nice? Expect the left to go apeshit over Newt Gingrich having an affair during the Clinton scandal. Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In The News<\/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":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}