{"id":109,"date":"2003-09-22T13:43:32","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T20:43:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-09-22T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T20:43:32","slug":"re-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/22\/re-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Re FAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a reader:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The Clintonoids at FAIR&#8221;?  Cute phrasing, which always seems to be the priority with you, but in this case at the expense of the truth.  If you wanted to reveal your ignorance of FAIR&#8217;s stance you could scarcely have chosen a better phrase.  Just a few examples: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/whats-new\/publicdeception.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/whats-new\/publicdeception.html\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/whats-new\/publicdeception.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/extra\/9303\/clintoncabinet.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/extra\/9303\/clintoncabinet.html\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/extra\/9303\/clintoncabinet.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/media-beat\/980820.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/media-beat\/980820.html\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/media-beat\/980820.html<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Unlike you, I actually read Extra! and get FAIR&#8217;s alerts&#8211;and have for years&#8211;so I know their position on Clinton.  You should take the time to familiarize yourself as well if you plan to comment on them.  And if you do, I only hope you&#8217;re not one of those people for whom criticism of the impeachment and &#8220;pro-Clinton&#8221; were synonomous.  Clinton *did* deserve to be impeached, but not for anything he did with cigars.  I despised Clinton, and yet I also realized that the impeachment was a joke, a travesty, and a threat to democracy. <\/p>\n<p>As for FAIR&#8217;s love for General Clark and his war, you could also have disabused yourself of your ignorance on that point if you&#8217;d taken the time to look around a bit and find out what they were actually saying DURING THAT WAR (which is, of course, not the point when they&#8217;re discussing his position on Gulf War Part II): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/kosovo-ceasefire.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/kosovo-ceasefire.html\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/kosovo-ceasefire.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/kosovo-talks.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/kosovo-talks.html\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/kosovo-talks.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/activism\/embassy-bombing.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/activism\/embassy-bombing.html\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/activism\/embassy-bombing.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/kosovo-solution.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/kosovo-solution.html\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/kosovo-solution.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/victory.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/victory.html\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/press-releases\/victory.html<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You can check the full list for yourself here (particularly those under &#8220;Action Alerts and Media Advisories&#8221;): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/international\/yugoslavia.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/international\/yugoslavia.html\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/international\/yugoslavia.html<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for FAIR, eh?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sure. Hey, I said they had a decent review of his statements on Iraq. Of course, Clark only commented on that war; he didn&#8217;t lead it. I just thought it funny that in a piece on whether or not Clark is antiwar, they focused on things he had said, instead of things he had done. <\/p>\n<p>A whole entry with no cute phrasing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a reader: &#8220;The Clintonoids at FAIR&#8221;? Cute phrasing, which always seems to be the priority with you, but in this case at the expense of the truth. If you wanted to reveal your ignorance of FAIR&#8217;s stance you could scarcely have chosen a better phrase. Just a few examples: http:\/\/www.fair.org\/whats-new\/publicdeception.html http:\/\/www.fair.org\/extra\/9303\/clintoncabinet.html http:\/\/www.fair.org\/media-beat\/980820.html Unlike you, [&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-109","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\/109","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=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}