{"id":13291,"date":"2013-01-22T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T15:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2013-01-22T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T15:53:46","slug":"zero-dark-thirty-is-osama-bin-ladens-last-victory-over-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/01\/22\/zero-dark-thirty-is-osama-bin-ladens-last-victory-over-america\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Zero Dark Thirty&#8217; Is Osama bin Laden&#8217;s Last Victory Over America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Rolling Stone article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/taibblog\/zero-dark-thirty-is-osama-bin-ladens-last-victory-over-america-20130116\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8216;Zero Dark Thirty&#8217; Is Osama bin Laden&#8217;s Last Victory Over America<\/strong><\/a> by Matt Taibbi.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now we have this movie out that seems to celebrate the use of torture against Arabs, and we&#8217;re nominating it for Oscars. Bigelow can say that &#8220;depiction is not endorsement,&#8221; but how does she think audiences will receive it in the Middle East? Are they going to sell lots of popcorn in Riyadh and Kabul during the waterboarding scenes?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Besides not wanting to see torture scenes, the bottom line, as Taibbi describes it above, is one reason we won&#8217;t be seeing this movie.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I grew up on too many movies about World War II where we were taught to hate the Nazis because of their use of torture.\u00a0 I can live with that.\u00a0 I&#8217;d hate to think the next generations will be taught to love America because we use torture.\u00a0 What is this world coming to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling Stone has the article &#8216;Zero Dark Thirty&#8217; Is Osama bin Laden&#8217;s Last Victory Over America by Matt Taibbi. Now we have this movie out that seems to celebrate the use of torture against Arabs, and we&#8217;re nominating it for Oscars. Bigelow can say that &#8220;depiction is not endorsement,&#8221; but how does she think audiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13296,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions\/13296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}