{"id":205,"date":"2002-02-21T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2002-02-21T23:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/jane-swift-ducks-and-runs-for-cover\/"},"modified":"2002-02-21T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2002-02-21T23:44:58","slug":"jane-swift-ducks-and-runs-for-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/21\/jane-swift-ducks-and-runs-for-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Swift ducks and runs for cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— The Boston Globe is one of the most liberal papers in the country, but they joined the Wall St. Journal in calling for the release of Amirault. Swift’s action is backfiring on her, as her motives are so utterly transparent (Boston Globe \/ Governor explains Amirault decision<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\n”Was her decision based purely on political self-interest, on an assessment of how it might affect her chances to be elected governor?” Sultan said. ”Should a man’s freedom depend on political polling, rather [than] upon what is right and just? Has Gerald Amirault become, in a very real sense, a poltical prisoner? The answers to those questions are self evident.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Globe’s on-line poll has readers disagreeing with Swift 3-1, so the political move was a stupid one at that. Come on out to California, Jane, you’ll fit in nicely with our Republican Party.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— The Boston Globe is one of the most liberal papers in the country, but they joined the Wall St. Journal in calling for the release of Amirault. Swift’s action is backfiring on her, as her motives are so utterly transparent (Boston Globe \/ Governor explains Amirault decision) ”Was her decision based purely on political … Continue reading “Jane Swift ducks and runs for cover”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-3j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}