{"id":2015,"date":"2008-04-06T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/06\/a-truthsayer\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T20:24:43","slug":"a-truthsayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/06\/a-truthsayer\/","title":{"rendered":"a truthsayer…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve enjoyed reading Andrew Sullivan<\/strong><\/a> over the last several years. Among other things, Sullivan is "HIV-positive<\/strong>, gay<\/strong>, self-described conservative<\/strong> often at odds with other conservatives, practicing Roman Catholic<\/strong>, and a non-U.S. citizen<\/strong> who focuses on American political life." He has also recanted his support for things Bush\/Cheney. This morning, my wife yelled from the other room, "You’ve got to hear this!" It was Chris Matthews<\/strong> and she replayed this<\/strong><\/a>: <\/p>\n

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This week, Andrew Sullivan<\/strong> of The Atlantic<\/strong> <\/em>spoke as bluntly as any talking head has done since Bush\/Cheney took office: "The latest revelations on the torture front show—the memo from John Yoo—as well as revelations from Phillippe Sands’ book<\/a><\/strong>, mean that Donald Rumsfeld<\/strong>, David Addington<\/strong> and John Yoo<\/strong> should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be at some point indicted for war crimes. They deserve to be."<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I don’t think he’s just being sarcastic. I think he’s absolutely correct. The most recent Yoo Memo is indefensible, by any reading. As I’ve read over the public writings of John Yoo in these last few days, I’ve been amazed. In his memos, he tries to sound very "legal," but in his op-ed writings, he’s an openly Neoconservative Republican idealogogue. He sounds like a spokesman for Dick Cheney [who, by the way, I wish Sullivan had included in his comment].<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve enjoyed reading Andrew Sullivan over the last several years. Among other things, Sullivan is "HIV-positive, gay, self-described conservative often at odds with other conservatives, practicing Roman Catholic, and a non-U.S. citizen who focuses on American political life." He has also recanted his support for things Bush\/Cheney. This morning, my wife yelled from the other […]<\/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-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","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=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}