{"id":9588,"date":"2011-03-31T08:10:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2011-03-31T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:12:55","slug":"ouch-rand-paul-zings-gingrich-on-libya-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/31\/ouch-rand-paul-zings-gingrich-on-libya-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch! Rand Paul Zings Gingrich on Libya, Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While right wingers have been all over the map on the U.S intervention in Libya, flip-flopping and crashing into one another like a bad Laurel and Hardy routine, Rand Paul has found that sticking to one&#8217;s principles (in his case, he&#8217;s against a new front in the war) makes for a clear head and a relaxed approach. So relaxed he was able to get off a few much deserved zingers at the Congressional Correspondents Dinner last night, according to a retelling and linked video at <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/03\/31\/rand-paul-newt-gingrich\/\">Think Progress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>PAUL: <strong>I was happy to see that Newt Gingrich has  staked out a position on the war, a position, or two, or maybe three. I  don\u2019t know. I think he has more war positions than he\u2019s had wives.<\/strong> [&#8230;]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(ouch!)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There\u2019s a big debate over there. <strong>Fox News can\u2019t decide, what  do they love more, bombing the Middle East or bashing the president?  It\u2019s like I was over there and there was an anchor going, they were  pleading, can\u2019t we do both?<\/strong> Can\u2019t we bomb the Middle East and bash the president at the same time? How are we going to make this work?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the clip:<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/62j93NbLL7U?version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While right wingers have been all over the map on the U.S intervention in Libya, flip-flopping and crashing into one another like a bad Laurel and Hardy routine, Rand Paul has found that sticking to one&#8217;s principles (in his case, he&#8217;s against a new front in the war) makes for a clear head and a [&hellip;]<\/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-9588","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\/9588","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=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9593,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions\/9593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}