{"id":44545,"date":"2014-08-22T17:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/the-rumor-mill-and-playing-operator.html"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:35:43","slug":"the-rumor-mill-and-playing-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/the-rumor-mill-and-playing-operator.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rumor Mill and Playing "Operator""},"content":{"rendered":"
Because if you keep eliding portions of the previous message and adding a little bit of spin, pretty soon you can make up whatever rumor you want to.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Crazy Conservatives Are Sure a Gitmo Detainee Killed James Foley<\/a>
\n James Foley was courageous, and his murder by an apparently English-accented zealot of the Syria-based Islamic State was so horrific that no simple narrative can do it justice. Unless, that is, you’re a conservative political opportunist of a special sort, eager to pin the crime on liberal policies.\n <\/p>\n

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Because if you keep eliding portions of the previous message and adding a little bit of spin, pretty soon you can make up whatever rumor you want to.\ufeff Crazy Conservatives Are Sure a Gitmo Detainee Killed James Foley James Foley was courageous, and his murder by an apparently English-accented zealot of the Syria-based Islamic State … Continue reading “The Rumor Mill and Playing "Operator"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-fourth-estate","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9902,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/12\/its_not_about_foley.html","url_meta":{"origin":44545,"position":0},"title":"It’s not about Foley","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Oct-06 8:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Something interesting happened on the way to the scandal ... 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