{"id":3796,"date":"2007-08-14T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/would-you-buy-a-used-war-from-this-man\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T21:01:42","slug":"would-you-buy-a-used-war-from-this-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/would-you-buy-a-used-war-from-this-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Buy a Used War From This Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Glenn Greenwald <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2007\/08\/12\/ohanlon\/index.html\">demolished<\/a> the pro-surge scam that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/30\/opinion\/30pollack.html?ex=1187236800&#038;en=5c0d1bacf085ff36&#038;ei=5070\">Michael O&#8217;Hanlon and Ken Pollack<\/a> have been trying to pull for the last couple of weeks. After Greenwald&#8217;s evisceration of these con men, one would think that the matter was settled, that anyone with a reputation to maintain would sooner peddle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/crime\/fraud\/nigeria.asp\">Nigerian investment opportunities<\/a> on national television than so much as whisper the names O&#8217;Hanlon and Pollack in public. <\/p>\n<p>Ah, but one would misjudge the shameless, pathetic little worm that is Bill Kristol. Granted, Kristol doesn&#8217;t have much of a reputation to maintain: his claim to &#8220;public intellectual&#8221; status is based solely on his frequent Fox News appearances and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/aboutus\/bio_kristol.asp\">editing<\/a> of such heavyweights as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/sperry\/?articleid=9141\">Stephen Hayes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoshop.org\/myep\/schwartz.html\">Stephen Comrade Sandalio Suleyman Ahmad al-Kosovi Shaka Zulu Schwartz<\/a>. Still, even Kristol must have been slightly embarrassed when Jon Stewart instantly shot down his invocation of the <em>Look! Even war critics say the surge is working!<\/em> talking point on last night&#8217;s <em>Daily Show<\/em>. (It&#8217;s about 2:30 into this clip.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Glenn Greenwald demolished the pro-surge scam that Michael O&#8217;Hanlon and Ken Pollack have been trying to pull for the last couple of weeks. After Greenwald&#8217;s evisceration of these con men, one would think that the matter was settled, that anyone with a reputation to maintain would sooner peddle Nigerian investment opportunities on national [&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-3796","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\/3796","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=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}