{"id":399,"date":"2004-01-13T21:36:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T04:36:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-01-13T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T04:36:49","slug":"surreal-is-an-overused-term-but-it-fits-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/13\/surreal-is-an-overused-term-but-it-fits-here\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Surreal&#8221; Is an Overused Term, but It Fits Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was I just dreaming, or did I see David Frum, Richard Perle, and <i>David Byrne<\/i> together on CNBC last night? OK, they weren&#8217;t together, but they were all <a href=http:\/\/216.239.41.104\/search?q=cache:v9M8h3IvGsIJ:moneycentral.msn.com\/Content\/CNBCTV\/TV_Info\/GuestList.asp+%22maria+bartiromo%22+%22david+byrne%22&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8>guests<\/a> on the comely <a href=http:\/\/www.moravian.edu\/news\/inCommon\/05-07-02\/images\/bartiromo.jpg>Maria Bartiromo&#8217;s<\/a> program. Frum &#038; Perle were promoting their new foray into children&#8217;s literature, <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1400061946\/antiwarbookstore\/><i>An End to Evil<\/i><\/a>. Byrne, the great eccentric who told us <a href=http:\/\/www.lyricscrawler.com\/song\/130962.html>not to worry about the government<\/a>, came on right after Perle&#8217;s segment to discuss <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/3882439076\/antiwarbookstore\/>his new PowerPoint-themed project<\/a>. Bartiromo asked Byrne about Frum, Perle, and Paul O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s revelations, but he seemed a bit nervous commenting. (Perhaps it was the stress of being face-to-face with the <a href=http:\/\/vaultmusicservices.com\/joeyramone.html#Maria%20Bartiromo>object of Joey Ramone&#8217;s affections<\/a>.) There was no mention, however, of what may be the most fateful slide presentation in world history, <a href=http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2069119\/>Laurent Murawiec&#8217;s &#8220;Iraq is the tactical pivot&#8221; PowerPoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was I just dreaming, or did I see David Frum, Richard Perle, and David Byrne together on CNBC last night? OK, they weren&#8217;t together, but they were all guests on the comely Maria Bartiromo&#8217;s program. Frum &#038; Perle were promoting their new foray into children&#8217;s literature, An End to Evil. Byrne, the great eccentric who [&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-399","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\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}