{"id":3891,"date":"2007-09-21T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/lets-call-this-post-president-bushtrayus\/"},"modified":"2007-09-22T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T18:27:35","slug":"lets-call-this-post-president-bushtrayus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/lets-call-this-post-president-bushtrayus\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Call This Post &#8220;President Bushtrayus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may or may not have already heard, the United States Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070921\/NATION\/109210085\/1001\">has passed a non-binding resolution<\/a> condemning Moveon.org over a September 10th advertisement in the New York Times. This is fresh off Rep. Thomas Davis III&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/article\/20070919\/NATION\/109190082\/1001\">call for an &#8220;investigation&#8221;<\/a> into whether the discounted rate the Times gave them violates election laws (which apparently were expanded enough to cover criticism of an unelected General in a non-election year). We could ask what sort of chilling effect this will have on freedom of speech, but frankly I think the days where anyone takes Congress seriously are long over. <\/p>\n<p>Plus, I have to admit I&#8217;m a little jealous. Antiwar.com has been around longer than Moveon.org, and has certainly been criticizing wars longer than they have. Where&#8217;s our non-binding resolution? After all, what are our tax dollars going for if not to pay Senators to complain to us about our lack of patriotism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may or may not have already heard, the United States Senate has passed a non-binding resolution condemning Moveon.org over a September 10th advertisement in the New York Times. This is fresh off Rep. Thomas Davis III&#8217;s call for an &#8220;investigation&#8221; into whether the discounted rate the Times gave them violates election laws (which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3891","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\/3891","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}