{"id":2406,"date":"2003-05-14T13:05:43","date_gmt":"2003-05-14T20:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/05\/salam-pax-hoax-or-baathist\/"},"modified":"2003-05-14T13:05:43","modified_gmt":"2003-05-14T20:05:43","slug":"salam-pax-hoax-or-baathist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/14\/salam-pax-hoax-or-baathist\/","title":{"rendered":"Salam Pax: Hoax or Baathist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tPrompted by an article by David Warren<\/a> in the Ottawa Citizen, bloggers Daily Pundit<\/a>, Roger Simon<\/a>, and Charles Johnson<\/a> ponder the possibility that the Baghdad blogger’s a Baathist. <\/p>\n

I’m not convinced he’s not simply a hoax, but in any event I’m pretty sure he’s not the “ordinary Baghdadi” he claims to be. He criticized Saddam just enough to establish some credibility, and then forcefully condemned the war. Since his main concern is for his home furnishings, he comes across like a clumsy parody of a gay man. So whatever his situation and motivation, he’s not what he appears to be, at least not as far as I can tell.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prompted by an article by David Warren in the Ottawa Citizen, bloggers Daily Pundit, Roger Simon, and Charles Johnson ponder the possibility that the Baghdad blogger’s a Baathist. I’m not convinced he’s not simply a hoax, but in any event I’m pretty sure he’s not the “ordinary Baghdadi” he claims to be. He criticized Saddam … Continue reading “Salam Pax: Hoax or Baathist?”<\/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-2406","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-CO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","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=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}