{"id":3568,"date":"2007-05-17T00:42:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T07:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/david-gergen-and-the-8th-circle-of-hell\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T08:30:30","slug":"david-gergen-and-the-8th-circle-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/david-gergen-and-the-8th-circle-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gergen and the 8th Circle of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the smears and epithets directed at Ron Paul by the Giuliani camp and the neocons (or do I repeat myself?), the sleaziest was upchucked<\/a> by professional opportunist and political chameleon\u00c2\u00a0David Gergen, appearing on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360”:<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0“I think Rudy Giuliani won the night … [Giuliani] seized a moment when Ron Paul sort of opened up this argument that maybe we had it coming, with 9\/11<\/strong> and Giuliani just jumped into the debate, he disrupted the debate. To just say no, no, that’s not right and I just don’t agree with that. … [I]t was like a minor Nashua moment when Ronald Reagan, you know, seized the microphone, there was a quality here about showing his sort of, not only his anger but strength that I think served him well tonight.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Ron Paul said no such thing, as is shown here<\/a>, but that hasn’t stopped the Smear Machine from churning out lies.\u00c2\u00a0To say that US government policies in the Middle East provided grist for Osama bin Laden’s mill is not<\/em> to say that the 3,000-plus people he murdered “had it coming,” as Gergen put it.<\/p>\n

Gergen, the\u00c2\u00a0sometime Clintonite<\/a>, is,\u00c2\u00a0perhaps, awaiting the call to join Rudy’s\u00c2\u00a0inner circle of advisors, where he’ll take his place alongside Bernie<\/a> Kerik<\/a>. Whatever the outcome of this ambition, my guess is that Gergen’s ultimate reward will be a reserved spot in the 8th circle of hell<\/a>, where the souls of “fraudulent counselors” are sent, along with panders and seducers, flatterers, simonists<\/a>, diviners, barrators<\/a>, hypocrites, thieves, falsifiers, and makers of discord.<\/p>\n

Oh, and, by the way, Giuliani didn’t <\/em>pay for that microphone — but that hasn’t stopped his supporters from following their Leader’s example and trying to silence<\/a> Ron Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the smears and epithets directed at Ron Paul by the Giuliani camp and the neocons (or do I repeat myself?), the sleaziest was upchucked by professional opportunist and political chameleon\u00c2\u00a0David Gergen, appearing on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360”: \u00c2\u00a0“I think Rudy Giuliani won the night … [Giuliani] seized a moment when Ron Paul sort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-3568","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\/3568","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}