{"id":1083,"date":"2004-06-23T02:23:34","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T09:23:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-23T02:23:34","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T09:23:34","slug":"chickenhawk-is-more-than-mere-ad-hominem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/23\/chickenhawk-is-more-than-mere-ad-hominem\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chickenhawk&#8221; Is More Than Mere Ad Hominem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.affbrainwash.com\/genehealy\/archives\/012600.php>Gene Healy<\/a> finds this long lost glimpse into the sick mind of Fred Barnes:<\/p>\n<ul>In an essay in the Feb. 24 [1997] Weekly Standard, Barnes laments the current &#8220;ennui&#8221; in Washington and confesses his longings for the glory days of old &#8212; you know, the Golden Age commonly known as &#8220;the Bush administration.&#8221; &#8220;The last great moment in Washington was Desert Storm,&#8221; Barnes writes, with an almost audible sigh. &#8220;It was exciting to follow and write about &#8230; Every press conference, I watched. Desert Storm was all I thought about or talked about. My stories concentrated on President Bush&#8217;s heroic role in the war. As best I recall, he wasn&#8217;t in a funk, not even for a single fleeting moment.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.salon.com\/feb97\/media\/media970224.html>Via Salon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Healy finds this long lost glimpse into the sick mind of Fred Barnes: In an essay in the Feb. 24 [1997] Weekly Standard, Barnes laments the current &#8220;ennui&#8221; in Washington and confesses his longings for the glory days of old &#8212; you know, the Golden Age commonly known as &#8220;the Bush administration.&#8221; &#8220;The last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}