{"id":843,"date":"2009-09-25T10:21:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2009-09-25T10:21:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:21:49","slug":"wacky-world-leaders-and-the-mainstream-media-that-back-them-oh-goodness-lets-go-for-5000-on-this-one-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/843\/wacky-world-leaders-and-the-mainstream-media-that-back-them-oh-goodness-lets-go-for-5000-on-this-one-alex\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky World Leaders and the Mainstream Media that Back Them. Oh Goodness, Let&#8217;s Go for $5000 on This One, Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/798\/wacky-world-leaders-for-20-alex\/\" target=\"_blank\">we remarked<\/a> briefly and pointedly on the paranoid delusional loon who is the (appropriately) deposed former President of Honduras, one Manuel Zelaya.\u00a0\u00a0 By President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (not to mention the Organization of American States), the tiny country has been threatened with economic ruin if it does not return the guy to power.<\/p>\n<p>But what of the mainstream media that also supported Zelaya\u2019s return.\u00a0 Well, at least the <em>Washington Post<\/em> read that Mr. Zelaya now claims to have been \u201cbombarded with radiation and toxic gases by &#8216;Israeli mercenaries.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what does good old WaPo write now?\u00a0 &#8220;Such behavior ought to deter any responsible member of the Organization of American States \u2013 starting with Brazil \u2013 from supporting anything other than a token return by Mr. Zelaya to office.\u00a0 The Obama administration has backed such a restoration (as have we)&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re much too busy to go back and parse words, but we just can\u2019t seem to remember the emphasis on &#8220;token&#8221; by any of the aforementioned in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Based on some pretty solid understanding of the Honduras Constitution and the circumstances of Zelaya\u2019s removal by people who actually know something about the country, we think he was removed from office legally and by the book.\u00a0 And now we also know, from his own mouth, that he\u2019s certifiable.<\/p>\n<p>Would a &#8220;token&#8221; return to office be in a straight jacket with Nurse Ratchet on duty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we remarked briefly and pointedly on the paranoid delusional loon who is the (appropriately) deposed former President of Honduras, one Manuel Zelaya.\u00a0\u00a0 By President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (not to mention the Organization of American States), the tiny country has been threatened with economic ruin if it does not return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,184,116,24],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-manuel-zelaya","tag-media","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}