{"id":3296,"date":"2005-05-20T10:49:22","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/20\/monitoring-air-america-radio\/"},"modified":"2005-05-20T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T18:49:22","slug":"monitoring-air-america-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/monitoring-air-america-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Air America Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/boreamerica.com\/\">BoreAmerica.com<\/a> monitors Air America so you don&#8217;t have to.  They linked one of my posts on Al Franken&#8217;s lies, showing their good taste and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>I had intended to make Al Franken&#8217;s Lies of the Day a regular feature, but it&#8217;s too boring because he tells the same lies over and over. This week it&#8217;s been the filibuster lie every day (&#8220;the filibuster has always been used like the Democrats are using it now against judges &#8211; the Founding Fathers intended it to be used to stifle the will of the majority, blah blah blah.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>We did finally catch Franken on a different (if not exactly new) lie today: the Administration (and Rush Limbaugh) duped the people about Saddam&#8217;s WMDs. Saddam never had WMDs but Bush\/Rush made up this story to justify grabbing his oil, yada yada yada. I have just one thing to say about this: tell it to the Kurds whose gassing was one of the reasons that both the US and the UK called for Saddam&#8217;s removal throughout the 90s.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998? Franken doesn&#8217;t.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoreAmerica.com monitors Air America so you don&#8217;t have to. They linked one of my posts on Al Franken&#8217;s lies, showing their good taste and discrimination. I had intended to make Al Franken&#8217;s Lies of the Day a regular feature, but it&#8217;s too boring because he tells the same lies over and over. This week it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/monitoring-air-america-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monitoring Air America Radio&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ra","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","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=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}