{"id":2236,"date":"2003-02-27T15:31:36","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/02\/spammers-for-saddam\/"},"modified":"2003-02-27T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2003-02-27T22:31:36","slug":"spammers-for-saddam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/27\/spammers-for-saddam\/","title":{"rendered":"Spammers for Saddam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"War Protesters Are Taking to Information Superhighway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-antiwar27feb27,1,3124151.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation\">Bush Protesters Are Taking to Information Superhighway:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Organizers of the &#8220;virtual march on Washington&#8221; said that Senate offices and the White House were deluged with more than 1 million calls and faxes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are getting slammed by the virtual marchers,&#8221; said an aide to Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), who supports President Bush in the use of force, if necessary, to disarm the government of Saddam Hussein, with or without U.N. approval.<\/p>\n<p>Many callers to the Capitol were greeted by a recorded message saying &#8220;all circuits are busy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This kind of rude behavior generally causes a backlash from the over-worked staffers who have to spend the entire day talking to protesters, which in this case is darn good.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Protesters Are Taking to Information Superhighway: Organizers of the &#8220;virtual march on Washington&#8221; said that Senate offices and the White House were deluged with more than 1 million calls and faxes. &#8220;We are getting slammed by the virtual marchers,&#8221; said an aide to Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), who supports President Bush in the use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/27\/spammers-for-saddam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spammers for Saddam&#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-2236","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-A4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","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=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}