{"id":800,"date":"2001-11-13T19:15:15","date_gmt":"2001-11-14T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=800"},"modified":"2001-11-13T19:15:15","modified_gmt":"2001-11-14T00:15:15","slug":"todays_gratuito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/13\/todays_gratuito.html","title":{"rendered":"Today’s gratuitous Saudi-bashing"},"content":{"rendered":"

In light of Saudi Arabia having hired some high-powered (and well-connected) PR talent<\/a> to counter the growing tide of resentment and anger toward them, Mitch Wagner<\/a> has some ideas for some slogans, too:<\/p>\n

“We May Be A Bunch of Medieval Anti-Semitic Fuckheads, but Hey, Wasn’t That Lawrence of Arabia<\/i> a Great Movie?”
\n“We’re Islamic Fundamentalists, but the Cuddly Kind.”
\n“Visit Saudi Arabia, Unless You’re an Independent Woman or a Jew.”
\n“Making the World Safe for Monarchy.”<\/p>\n

(Via Matt Welch<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In light of Saudi Arabia having hired some high-powered (and well-connected) PR talent to counter the growing tide of resentment and anger toward them, Mitch Wagner has some ideas for…<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":987,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/28\/with_friends_li.html","url_meta":{"origin":800,"position":0},"title":"With friends like these …","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 28-Oct-01 6:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a low but growing tide of hostility out there toward the Saudis. 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