{"id":1126,"date":"2003-04-18T05:17:41","date_gmt":"2003-04-18T19:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/18\/propaganda-at-its-finest\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:31:47","slug":"propaganda-at-its-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/18\/propaganda-at-its-finest\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda at its finest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the heroic rescue of Private Jessica Lynch? I&#8217;m sure you do, it was practically the only story coming out of Iraq for close to a week.<\/p>\n<p>How heroic is it, really, when US forces storm into an unguarded hospital, terrorize the staff and patients, and handcuff four doctors and two patients &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,5944-648517,00.html\" title=\"So who really did save Private Jessica?\">one of whom was paralyzed and on an IV drip<\/a> &#8212; before leaving with Private Lynch?<\/p>\n<p>Another shining example of the US propaganda machine in full swing.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cobbers.com\/am\/archives\/000179.html\" title=\"G'day Cobbers: Who saved Private Jessica?\">Alan Moult<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How heroic is it, really, when US forces storm into an unguarded hospital, terrorize the staff and patients, and handcuff four doctors and two patients &mdash; one of whom was paralyzed and on an IV drip &mdash; before leaving with Private Lynch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}