{"id":2061,"date":"2004-06-28T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T17:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/roger-l-simon-smooth-move\/"},"modified":"2004-06-28T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T17:13:33","slug":"roger-l-simon-smooth-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/28\/roger-l-simon-smooth-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger L. Simon: Smooth Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/rogerlsimon.com\/archives\/00001068.htm\">Roger L. Simon: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBy the way, I know I have written this before, but I think the use of the term &#8220;insurgents&#8221; by the media inaccurate and propagandistic in its essence. As far as I know&#8230; and correct me if I&#8217;m wrong&#8230; there has not been one single of these people being anything but fascists, either of the Baathist or Islamist variety. Calling them &#8220;insurgents&#8221; then cloaks them in the romantic veneer of &#8220;freedom fighters.&#8221; We shall see whether the media continues with this obfuscation after the handover. (If there were neo-Nazis attacking the governments of Europe, would they call them &#8220;insurgents&#8221;? I think not.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger L. Simon: By the way, I know I have written this before, but I think the use of the term &#8220;insurgents&#8221; by the media inaccurate and propagandistic in its essence. As far as I know&#8230; and correct me if I&#8217;m wrong&#8230; there has not been one single of these people being anything but fascists, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/28\/roger-l-simon-smooth-move\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roger L. Simon: Smooth Move&#8221;<\/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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-xf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","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=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}