{"id":302342,"date":"2010-02-10T12:57:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76296"},"modified":"2010-02-10T12:57:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:57:43","slug":"more-gop-ignorance-about-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/302342","title":{"rendered":"More GOP Ignorance About National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76136\/brennan-says-critics-of-terrorism-policy-serve-the-goals-of-al-qaeda\">the entire GOP congressional leadership just loudly bleated that they know less about FBI procedure than the average moviegoer<\/a>, maybe Newt Gingrich didn&#8217;t want to show how blitheringly ignorant he is. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/gingrichbamboozlefail.php?ref=fpblg\">Josh Marshall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Classic moment last night on The Daily Show when Newt Gingrich explained that it was okay to mirandize &#8220;shoe bomber&#8221; Richard Reid and not Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because Reid, unlike Abdulmutallab, is a US citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Only, of course, Reid is a British citizen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-76296\"><\/span>No wonder <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76251\/obamas-terrorism-poll-numbers-rise-despite-gop-attacks\">President Obama&#8217;s terrorism poll numbers are rising and the public trusts him to handle terrorism more than the GOP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that\u00a0the entire GOP congressional leadership just loudly bleated that they know less about FBI procedure than the average moviegoer, maybe Newt Gingrich didn&#8217;t want to show how blitheringly ignorant he is. Josh Marshall: Classic moment last night on The Daily Show when Newt Gingrich explained that it was okay to mirandize &#8220;shoe bomber&#8221; Richard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}