{"id":11452,"date":"2011-09-07T07:21:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2011-09-07T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:07:16","slug":"moonie-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/moonie-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;ve Been Saving Those Moonie Jokes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/docs5\/diana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/docs5\/diana2-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Use them now, because <em>Washington Times<\/em> reporter Eli Lake is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/onmedia\/0911\/Eli_Lake_to_NewsweekThe_Daily_Beast.html?showall\">moving on up<\/a> to <em>Newsweek<\/em>. Lake is the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2010\/06\/on-that-dastardly-saddam-al-qaeda-connection\/58901\/\">Iraq hack<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2011\/08\/08\/russia_embassy\/index.html\">all-purpose neocon instrument<\/a> to demonstrate the one rule of post-9\/11 journalism: there&#8217;s always work if you&#8217;re always pro-war.<\/p>\n<p>All jokes aside, I&#8217;m happy for Lake, who seems to have found his perfect match in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/tv\/feature\/2011\/06\/29\/newsweek_tina_brown_princess_diana_at_50\"><em>Newsweek<\/em> boss Tina Brown<\/a>. Just imagine what Lake will be able to do with her crack Photoshop staff! I&#8217;m already picturing the &#8220;Saddam at 75&#8221; cover story, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/opinion\/end-of-a-movement\/65135\/\">Hussein and bin Laden wearing matching Code Pink T-shirts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use them now, because Washington Times reporter Eli Lake is moving on up to Newsweek. Lake is the latest Iraq hack and all-purpose neocon instrument to demonstrate the one rule of post-9\/11 journalism: there&#8217;s always work if you&#8217;re always pro-war. All jokes aside, I&#8217;m happy for Lake, who seems to have found his perfect match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[430,38,47,3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eli-lake","category-media","category-neocons","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/diana2.jpg","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\/11452","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=11452"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11507,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions\/11507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11452"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}