{"id":3457,"date":"2005-07-15T02:32:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T09:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/15\/molly-ivins-eats-crow\/"},"modified":"2005-07-15T02:32:37","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T09:32:37","slug":"molly-ivins-eats-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/molly-ivins-eats-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Ivins eats crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/columnists\/story\/23493\/\">nice to read:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There have been estimates as high as 1 million civilians killed by Saddam, though most agree on the 300,000 to 400,000 range, making my comparison to 20,000 civilian dead in this war pathetically wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the old bat had little choice, given that she was <a href=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/04\/molly-ivins-americas-greatest-comedian\/\">the laughing stock of the Western world<\/a> after claiming that the man she calls &#8220;shrub&#8221; had killed more Iraqis than Galloway&#8217;s (and probably Joe Wilson&#8217;s) former employer.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was nice to read: There have been estimates as high as 1 million civilians killed by Saddam, though most agree on the 300,000 to 400,000 range, making my comparison to 20,000 civilian dead in this war pathetically wrong. But the old bat had little choice, given that she was the laughing stock of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/molly-ivins-eats-crow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Molly Ivins eats crow&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","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-TL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","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=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}