{"id":7898,"date":"2010-08-28T04:38:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T12:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2010-08-28T04:38:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T12:38:28","slug":"daniel-assange-is-not-scott-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/daniel-assange-is-not-scott-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Assange is NOT Scott Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like producers for Dr. Phil and Montel might be waiting awhile if they think they have a celebrity dad-hating story in the making. Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post <\/em><\/a>seemed to have obtained a scoop yesterday rising to the level of Dr. Evil\/Scott Evil proportions<\/a>, excerpting a FaceBook quote from Daniel Assange, 20, that appeared on its face to fuel the growing personal attacks against his father, embattled WikiLeaks founder and director, Julian Assange:<\/p>\n

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s own son thinks he’s a nightmare when it comes to women.<\/p>\n

“That man does have a way of making a lot of female enemies,” Daniel Assange, 21, said about his embattled dad.<\/p>\n

Daniel made the Facebook <\/a>posting after two Swedish women came forward with allegations that led to rape and molestation charges against his dad.<\/p>\n

Daniel also wondered about his father’s claim that the accusations were part of a Pentagon “smear campaign.”<\/p>\n

“Interesting to see whether this is the result of a government plot or personal grudges,” he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Daniel Assange is no 'Scott Evil'<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But later on Friday, Daniel, under the moniker Somnidea on a website called The Sleepy Lammata <\/a>lashed out at the newspaper, calling the story “godawful sensational tripe”:<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d just like to note here that the comments in question were very tongue-in-cheek and never intended to be made public like this, much less support the conclusions of the article. The NYP did not<\/strong> interview me or otherwise attain my consent in any way for their publication. I have much respect for my father and his cause, and these ridiculously ill-handled allegations of sexual abuse serve only to distract from the audacious awesomeness that he has actually done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like producers for Dr. Phil and Montel might be waiting awhile if they think they have a celebrity dad-hating story in the making. Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post seemed to have obtained a scoop yesterday rising to the level of Dr. Evil\/Scott Evil proportions, excerpting a FaceBook quote from Daniel Assange, 20, that appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/7898","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\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8794,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions\/8794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}