{"id":20817,"date":"2015-05-26T10:34:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20817"},"modified":"2015-05-26T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:35:12","slug":"lindsey-grahams-pool-room-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/05\/26\/lindsey-grahams-pool-room-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham\u2019s \u2018pool room\u2019 education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>MSNBC<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/lindsey-grahams-pool-room-education?CID=sm_fb_maddow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"MSNBC article\">Lindsey Graham\u2019s \u2018pool room\u2019 education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City, Graham didn\u2019t make things any better. The BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-32850481\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<senator Lindsey Graham, the first speaker Friday morning, appearing from Washington via video, spoke of losing his parents as a teenager, working in a pool hall and having to help raise his younger sister \u2013 and how it relates to his leadership style.\n\n\u201cEverything I learned about Iranians I learned working in the pool room,\u201d he said. \u201cI met a lot of liars, and I know Iranians are liars.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In context, Graham didn\u2019t seem to be arguing that Iranians were dishonest pool players in the South Carolina hall where he used to work, but rather, he got to know dishonest pool players, giving him finely tuned lie-detection skills, and those skills now tell him that Iranians are just like those pool sharks he used to know.<\/senator><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How can you give a guy like this any respect?  I don&#8217;t know why we don&#8217;t just laugh him off the political stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has the article Lindsey Graham\u2019s \u2018pool room\u2019 education. At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City, Graham didn\u2019t make things any better. The BBC reported:<\/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-20817","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\/20817","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=20817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20819,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817\/revisions\/20819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}