{"id":4518,"date":"2010-08-23T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2010-08-23T19:02:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:02:49","slug":"how-faux-noise-betrayed-general-petraeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/23\/how-faux-noise-betrayed-general-petraeus\/","title":{"rendered":"How Faux Noise Betrayed General Petraeus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"Faux Noise Betrating Petraeus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/22\/opinion\/22rich.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Frank Rich&#8217;s column<\/strong><\/a> he explains how Faux Noise betrayed General Petraeus with their trumped up Manhattan Islamic Cultural Center controversy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So virulent is the Islamophobic hysteria of the neocon and Fox News right \u2014 abetted by the useful idiocy of the Anti-Defamation League, Harry Reid and other cowed Democrats \u2014 that it has also rendered Gen. David Petraeus\u2019s last-ditch counterinsurgency strategy for fighting the war inoperative. How do you win Muslim hearts and minds in Kandahar when you are calling Muslims every filthy name in the book in New York?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Frank Rich&#8217;s column he explains how Faux Noise betrayed General Petraeus with their trumped up Manhattan Islamic Cultural Center controversy. So virulent is the Islamophobic hysteria of the neocon and Fox News right \u2014 abetted by the useful idiocy of the Anti-Defamation League, Harry Reid and other cowed Democrats \u2014 that it has also [&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-4518","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\/4518","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=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4519,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}