{"id":3355,"date":"2005-06-14T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T21:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/14\/didnt-get-the-memo\/"},"modified":"2005-06-14T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T21:21:12","slug":"didnt-get-the-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/14\/didnt-get-the-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn’t Get the Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWhat does it mean when a Brit says something is “fixed?” Mark Memmott speculates:<\/a><\/p>\n

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MARK MEMMOTT: Britain and the United States are separated by a common language, I think is the clich\u00e9. To someone in Britain, it’s possible that that phrase, fixed around, could mean attached to or bolted on, not necessarily skewed. It’s possible that that phrase, fixed around, could also mean, well they selectively take good intelligence, and that’s what they emphasize, to build their case. So that’s where the argument comes down to why it’s so important to find out exactly what the person who wrote that meant. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like we said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now the interesting thing about this bad intelligence is this: we count on the CIA to tell the administration what goes on in the world, but we’ve been systematically castrating it since the Carter administration, when we feared it was too powerful and too effective (remember Allende, allegedly deposed by 200 CIA agents?)<\/p>\n

Now that we need a serious, bad-ass intelligence service we have a bunch of boy scouts afraid to step on multicultural toes. You try running a country with intelligence agencies feeding you bullshit.<\/p>\n

Somebody needs to take a little responsibility for that.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does it mean when a Brit says something is “fixed?” Mark Memmott speculates: MARK MEMMOTT: Britain and the United States are separated by a common language, I think is the clich\u00e9. To someone in Britain, it’s possible that that phrase, fixed around, could mean attached to or bolted on, not necessarily skewed. It’s possible … Continue reading “Didn’t Get the Memo”<\/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-3355","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-S7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","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=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}