{"id":602,"date":"2007-03-21T04:34:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T10:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/20\/doh-its-the-old-kill-thousands-get-captured-talk-big-trick\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T06:01:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T12:01:30","slug":"doh-its-the-old-kill-thousands-get-captured-talk-big-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Doh! It’s The Old “Kill Thousands, Get Captured, Talk Big” Trick!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the release last week of the transcripts of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial transcripts, I started a countdown; how long would it be until the Mainstream Media turned him into either a benign figure, or even something akin to a clever folk hero?<\/p>\n

The first bit was Saturday, on some NPR news show or another (you know – the one featuring the arid, personality-free anchors. That<\/em> one.\u00a0 They noted about KSM that he felt bad <\/em>about killing children!\u00a0 That he seemed to be quite the magnetic personality!<\/p>\n

They were humanizing <\/em>a person who has murdered thousands!
\nAnd now<\/a>…<\/p>\n

WHAT TIMING! Just when the attorney general and the president were coming under fire for the politicized dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys, the Pentagon released a transcript of a March 10 hearing in which Guantanamo detainee Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to masterminding the 9\/11 attacks. Now we can get back to the Bush administration’s preferred topic: What a heck of a job it’s doing in the war on terror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, it’s not some fringe-left dolt like Cucking Stool or Jesus General. It’s a newspaper.<\/p>\n

Question: When should <\/em>the administration have released the transcripts?<\/p>\n

Or are your attention spans that <\/em>short?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the release last week of the transcripts of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial transcripts, I started a countdown; how long would it be until the Mainstream Media turned him into either a benign figure, or even something akin to a clever folk hero? The first bit was Saturday, on some NPR news show or another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}