{"id":3902,"date":"2007-09-24T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/like-literally-dude\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T23:32:06","slug":"like-literally-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/like-literally-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"Like, Literally, Dude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyrevolution.com\/mt\/archives\/001754.html\">Jonathan Schwarz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said he thought Columbia&#8217;s invitation to Ahmadinejad was a mistake &#8220;because he comes literally with blood on his hands.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/acad\/intrel\/orwell46.htm\">here<\/a> to read Orwell&#8217;s thoughts on the debasement of language in the service of politics. I&#8217;ll just note that when you&#8217;re as full of sh*t as Joe Lieberman is, such phrases come easily, as when he told an audience of 400 at the Arab American Institute, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/judaism.about.com\/library\/2_americanjewry\/bl_lieberman_forpres.htm\">We are quite literally brothers and sisters<\/a>.&#8221; Or when he told a DLC conference that a WTO meeting in Seattle &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlc.org\/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=108&#038;subid=206&#038;contentid=1944\">will literally bring the world to our Pacific doorstep<\/a>.&#8221; You mean the literal world, or our literal doorstep?<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to add your favorite Liebermanisms in comments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Jonathan Schwarz: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said he thought Columbia&#8217;s invitation to Ahmadinejad was a mistake &#8220;because he comes literally with blood on his hands.&#8221; Click here to read Orwell&#8217;s thoughts on the debasement of language in the service of politics. I&#8217;ll just note that when you&#8217;re as full of sh*t as Joe Lieberman [&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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3902","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\/3902","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=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}