{"id":397376,"date":"2010-03-06T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T20:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6971"},"modified":"2010-03-06T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T20:46:34","slug":"first-time-farce-second-time-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/397376","title":{"rendered":"First time farce, second time tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read this whole piece on the Liz Cheney group Keep America Safe’s shameless attack on U.S. Justice attorneys<\/a> who upheld American legal tradition and the Constitution by defending Guantanano Bay detainees. I blogged on this topic earlier this week<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

From the first link:<\/p>\n

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Interviewing Liz Cheney<\/a>, Bill O’Reilly ran side-by-side photos of Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal and Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver who Katyal successfully represented in the Supreme Court. (Neal Katyal, I should mention, is my Georgetown colleague, on leave to the SG’s office.) Some readers might remember\u00a0Steven Colbert’s hilarious 2006 interview with Katyal<\/a> soon after the\u00a0Hamdan<\/em> decision. Colbert began, “You defended a detainee at Gitmo in front of the Supreme Court — for what reason? Why did you do it?” Neal replied: “A simple thing: he wanted a fair trial….” Colbert (cutting Katyal off): “Why do you hate our troops?” It brought gales of laughter from the audience. Watch the whole thing — it’s one of the few times that Colbert was actually upstaged by his guest.<\/p>\n

First time farce, second time tragedy. Colbert’s joke is Bill O’Reilly’s reality — the reality of a nauseating reprise of McCarthyism. No one is laughing now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Hat tip: the Daily Dish<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Read this whole piece on the Liz Cheney group Keep America Safe’s shameless attack on U.S. Justice attorneys who upheld American legal tradition and the Constitution by defending Guantanano Bay detainees. I blogged on this topic earlier this week here. From the first link: Interviewing Liz Cheney, Bill O’Reilly ran side-by-side photos of Deputy Solicitor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397376","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\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}