{"id":303348,"date":"2010-02-10T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76328"},"modified":"2010-02-10T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:57:45","slug":"gingrich-fresh-from-playing-himself-leads-with-his-national-security-glass-jaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303348","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich, Fresh From Playing Himself, Leads With His National Security Glass Jaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newtgingrich\/status\/8908877561\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/terrorism\/gingrich-i-meant-padilla-not-shoe-bomber\/\">Newt insists that he misspoke<\/a>: It <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76296\/more-gop-ignorance-about-national-security\">wasn&#8217;t would-be-shoebomber Richard Reid (nationality: British) who was an American citizen<\/a>; he meant Jose Padilla. This is supposed to inspire confidence in his sagacity as a terrorism expert. Not that this makes any more sense. Jon Stewart asked Gingrich about not Mirandizing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab if Richard Reid got the Miranda treatment. Why would Gingrich&#8217;s mind jump to Jose Padilla? It&#8217;s almost like Gingrich is unable to keep basic facts straight but won&#8217;t let that intrude upon his politically predetermined analysis.<\/p>\n<p>This has been <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76136\/brennan-says-critics-of-terrorism-policy-serve-the-goals-of-al-qaeda\">quite the week for shattering<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76251\/obamas-terrorism-poll-numbers-rise-despite-gop-attacks\">Republican Party&#8217;s national security glass jaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter,\u00a0Newt insists that he misspoke: It wasn&#8217;t would-be-shoebomber Richard Reid (nationality: British) who was an American citizen; he meant Jose Padilla. This is supposed to inspire confidence in his sagacity as a terrorism expert. Not that this makes any more sense. Jon Stewart asked Gingrich about not Mirandizing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab if Richard Reid [&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-303348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303348","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=303348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}