{"id":2552,"date":"2005-12-06T02:14:49","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T09:14:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-06T02:14:49","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T09:14:49","slug":"finally-an-ignoble-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/finally-an-ignoble-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, an Ignoble Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upset by Pentagon propaganda in Iraq, <a href=http:\/\/www.tinyrevolution.com\/mt\/archives\/000710.html>Christopher Hitchens<\/a> crawls to his porcelain throne at Slate and <a href=http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2131566\/>upchucks on his own reflection<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>I remember reading, decades ago, of a moment when Richard Nixon had made some desperate speech from his bunker and had then arranged for telegrams of support to be sent to the White House. And I wondered &#8212; did he eagerly tear them open and turn moistly to his aides, saying, &#8220;See: You can always count on the horse sense of the American people&#8221;? Was he, in other words, utterly and happily insulated and yet alarmingly insane?<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Andrew Sullivan will call it courageous, and I do hope that it ruined <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P2092_0_1_0_C>Arthur Chrenkoff&#8217;s<\/a> day, but <a href=http:\/\/www.giveupblog.com\/2005\/12\/down-with-delay.html>this guy knows the score<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>Chris Hitchens has finally found something so atrocious he can&#8217;t stand by it in this war. Ready for it? He is upset that the U.S. is lying to the Iraqis. It was ok, I suppose, when they were only lying to their own citizens about this war, but now that they are planting bullsh*t in the Iraqi media rather than feeding it to Judy Miller, now that&#8217;s a crime.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upset by Pentagon propaganda in Iraq, Christopher Hitchens crawls to his porcelain throne at Slate and upchucks on his own reflection: I remember reading, decades ago, of a moment when Richard Nixon had made some desperate speech from his bunker and had then arranged for telegrams of support to be sent to the White House. [&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-2552","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\/2552","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=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}