{"id":13743,"date":"2012-01-18T14:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13743"},"modified":"2012-01-18T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:54:27","slug":"fing-chronology-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/fing-chronology-how-does-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"F***ing Chronology, How Does It  Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As often happens, one <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/talking-turkey-with-rick-perry\">brilliant post<\/a> at <em>The American Spectator<\/em>&#8216;s blog (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/larison\/2012\/01\/17\/is-turkey-an-adversary-of-the-united-states\/\">Larison<\/a>) led me to another. <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/ron-paul-and-the-anti-zionists\">Behold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I arrived late at the town hall event in Meredith, he [Ron Paul] was prefacing an answer to a question about Israel by expressing admiration for Zionist principles of independence and self-reliance, going on to say, of course, that Israel shouldn&#8217;t get any US aid. (Paul, or someone on his staff, has clearly read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/12\/ron-paul-zionist\/249532\/\">this Jeffrey Goldberg post<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, so Paul cynically stole a talking point from Jeffrey Goldberg \u2014 who had, um, explained Paul&#8217;s position on Israel by quoting the congressman. It doesn&#8217;t get much sneakier than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As often happens, one brilliant post at The American Spectator&#8216;s blog (via Larison) led me to another. Behold: When I arrived late at the town hall event in Meredith, he [Ron Paul] was prefacing an answer to a question about Israel by expressing admiration for Zionist principles of independence and self-reliance, going on to say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"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":[21,36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-ron-paul"],"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\/13743","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=13743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13745,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions\/13745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13743"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}