{"id":361,"date":"2006-06-08T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2006-07-19T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T21:51:07","slug":"gleeful-fifth-columnists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Gleeful fifth columnists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the McLaughlin Report last Friday I was taken aback when Tony Blankly of the Washington Times, who looked very sullen, snapped at Newsweek&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0columnist -\u00c2\u00a0about the Haditha massacre. He said that <em>Fifth columnists<\/em> would enjoy this news. Fifth Columnists are traitors who hide in the general public waiting for the chance to sabotage the nation. That was a favorite name to call during the McCarthey Era. Now Rush Limbaugh\u00c2\u00a0has called critics of Haditha &#8220;gleeful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A pastor who&#8217;s son-in-law died in Iraq has <a href=\"http:\/\/time.blogs.com\/daily_dish\/2006\/06\/from_a_pastor.html\">a beautiful response<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the McLaughlin Report last Friday I was taken aback when Tony Blankly of the Washington Times, who looked very sullen, snapped at Newsweek&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0columnist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}