{"id":1684,"date":"2007-10-03T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T21:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/03\/two-strikes\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T16:10:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T21:10:20","slug":"two-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/03\/two-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"two strikes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.com\/2007\/10\/thompson_limbaugh_one_of_the_strongest_supporters_of_our_troops.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thompson: Limbaugh &quot;One Of The Strongest Supporters Of Our Troops&quot;<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>      <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/images\/thompsonfred.jpg\" \/>Fred Thompson has now gotten involved in the Rush Limbaugh &quot;phony soldiers&quot; controversy, putting out this statement defending Limbaugh and attacking the Democrats: &quot;Congressional Democrats are trying to divert attention from insulting our military leader in Iraq and pandering to the loony left by attacking Rush Limbaugh. He is one of the strongest supporters of our troops, yet Democrats claim he is not being strong enough. I wonder who General Petraeus and his troops think is most supportive.&quot;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>Fred Thompson<\/strong> isn&#8217;t someone I think about very much. I haven&#8217;t watched Law and Order since the brunette lawyer left the show a long time ago. I try not to remember that he&#8217;s from my beloved birthplace [Tennessee]. And I think he&#8217;s not really a contender because he says stupid things all the time. But this is the second time this week that he&#8217;s come out with an <font color=\"#400040\"><strong>Administration<\/strong> <strong>Talking Point<\/strong><\/font>. Earlier, he said:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2007\/10\/01\/thompson-saddam-hussein-clearly-had-wmd\/\">Thompson: Saddam Hussein &lsquo;clearly&rsquo; had WMD<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2007\/images\/09\/11\/t1home.thompsonpoll.ap.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    &#8230; Thompson said it was imperative to remove Hussein from power.     <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Saddam Hussein, today, had we not gone in, would be sitting on this power keg and be in control of the whole thing,&quot; Thompson predicted. &quot;He would have been the new dictator of that entire region in my estimation. He is&ndash;was&ndash;a dangerous irrational man who, by this time, would have been well on his way to having the nuclear capability himself.&quot;<\/p>\n<div>In remarks delivered earlier in a caf\u00c3\u00a9, Thompson said Hussein &quot;clearly&quot; had weapons of mass destruction prior to the beginning of the war.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>Saddam had W.M.D.s<\/strong> and <strong>Rush Limbaugh is a Patriotic Saint<\/strong> in the same week? Is Fred Thompson being <strong>fed lines from the White House<\/strong>? Is this clown-like figure the <strong>Republican Heir-Apparent<\/strong>? One more hard-core <font color=\"#400040\"><strong>Talking Point<\/strong><\/font> and the diagnosis is confirmed&#8230; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thompson: Limbaugh &quot;One Of The Strongest Supporters Of Our Troops&quot; Fred Thompson has now gotten involved in the Rush Limbaugh &quot;phony soldiers&quot; controversy, putting out this statement defending Limbaugh and attacking the Democrats: &quot;Congressional Democrats are trying to divert attention from insulting our military leader in Iraq and pandering to the loony left by attacking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}