{"id":440,"date":"2002-04-12T17:48:49","date_gmt":"2002-04-13T00:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/04\/litigious-war-profiteer\/"},"modified":"2002-04-12T17:48:49","modified_gmt":"2002-04-13T00:48:49","slug":"litigious-war-profiteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/12\/litigious-war-profiteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Litigious war profiteer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; One way to terrorize people in America, when there aren&#8217;t any widows to kick around and you need to beat-up on somebody, is with frivolous lawsuits. Check this by one of the targets of war profiteer Rall&#8217;s random rage (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speranzastudios.com\/freedirtydanny\/\">FREE DIRTY DANNY!)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd I was just one of many who were appalled by this specious hatchet job. When Russ Smith, the publisher of the New York Press wrote an editorial criticizing Rall&#8217;s Voice feature, I was overjoyed to contribute the accompanying illustration, which depicted Rall as a small dog urinating on a bronze statue of the Pulitzer Prize-winning MAUS author. In hindsight, I wish I&#8217;d let that illustration be the final expression of my disgust with Rall&#8217;s anti-Spiegelman slam-piece, but I let my strong feelings about the Voice feature get the better of me. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rall brags in one of the articles that a year doesn&#8217;t go by when he&#8217;s not taking someone to court. He&#8217;s a great national treasure (of Iraq, maybe.)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; One way to terrorize people in America, when there aren&#8217;t any widows to kick around and you need to beat-up on somebody, is with frivolous lawsuits. Check this by one of the targets of war profiteer Rall&#8217;s random rage (FREE DIRTY DANNY!) And I was just one of many who were appalled by this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/12\/litigious-war-profiteer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Litigious war profiteer&#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-440","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-76","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}