{"id":16075,"date":"2009-10-23T17:37:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T23:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16075"},"modified":"2009-10-23T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T23:37:49","slug":"who-started-this-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/who-started-this-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Who started this war?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, five minutes of distilled vitriol — it’s Foxtastic!<\/p>\n

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 Attack the president at every turn and, y’know, the the president might think you’re an attack channel, not a news channel. Echo (and supply) talking points for the GOP, and people might think you’re an official organ of the GOP. <\/p>\n

“The conservative media is winning now,” says Bill O’Reilly. “They’re winning. They’re damaging the President of the United States.”<\/p>\n

Just like a news organization should, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, five minutes of distilled vitriol — it’s Foxtastic!    Attack the president at every turn and, y’know, the the president might think you’re an attack channel, not a news channel. Echo (and supply) talking points for the GOP, and people might think you’re an official organ of the GOP.  “The conservative media is winning … Continue reading “Who started this war?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131496,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/trump-declares-i-think-this-will-be-the-last-election-if-i-dont-win.html","url_meta":{"origin":16075,"position":0},"title":"Trump declares, "I think this will be the last election if I don’t win."","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Sep-16 12:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because Hillary will legalize all the illegals! 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