{"id":105,"date":"2006-07-29T11:12:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T18:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=105"},"modified":"2006-07-29T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T18:12:05","slug":"50-percent-of-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/07\/29\/50-percent-of-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"50 percent of Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004435\"><\/a>So, apparently, 50 percent of Americans believe that we have discovered the weapons of the mass of the destruction, an increase from the roughly a third that believed such a thing.  It is probably just as well.  The majority of Americans also probably believe that Saddam Hussein did not allow the inspectors in &#8212; that being a more balf-faced told lie while the former is just something that&#8217;s been ruminated by various Republican politicos lately.<\/p>\n<p>Thus I heard, clicking past that radio station, John Gibson proclaiming &#8220;50 percent of Americans believe that we have found Saddam Hussein&#8217;s chemical weapons.  And you know what?  Those 50 percent are RIGHT!!  Are you with that 50 percent?  Call in!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I heard the Rush Limbaugh ad with the excerpt from the show regarding Rick Santorum and Representative Pete Hoekstra&#8217;s fact-finding search with a &#8220;They are going to say that this is meaningless, that the weapons were from before 1991, and lack any power.  That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re going to say.  Who cares?  Because we have found them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, that is <i>Exactly<\/i> what <i>they<\/i>&#8216;re going to say, and that is <i>exactly<\/i> what <i>they<\/I> said.  I believe the exchange went &#8220;There is more danger in your kitchen cabinet than in these weapons&#8221; with the odd response from a Representative of &#8220;You&#8217;re claiming I possess weapons of mass destruction in my kitchen cabinet??&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, apparently, 50 percent of Americans believe that we have discovered the weapons of the mass of the destruction, an increase from the roughly a third that believed such a thing. It is probably just as well. The majority of Americans also probably believe that Saddam Hussein did not allow the inspectors in &#8212; that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}