{"id":4846,"date":"2010-02-09T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:50:13","slug":"the-hypocrisy-of-hoekstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4846","title":{"rendered":"The Hypocrisy of Hoekstra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks to an officemate listening to talk radio, I just heard Lou “Mr. Independent”\u00a0Dobbs<\/a>, \u00a0follow the new right talking point that the Obama administration is “politicizing<\/a>” national security. He had on Rep. Pete Hoekstra to claim exactly that, specifically commenting on how the Obama administration “politicized” the Christmas Day bombing – which is especially rich given that Hoekstra himself sent out a fundraising letter citing the attempted bombing THREE (3) days after Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is infuriating to hear this level of blatant hypocrisy go unchallenged.<\/p>\n

The next thing we’ll see is a Wall Street Journa<\/em>l op-ed from Karl Rove\u00a0chastising\u00a0the Obama administration for “politicizing” such an important issue as the War on Terror<\/a> while the journalist whose show he is on nods seriously.<\/p>\n

[Image by republicanconference<\/a> licensed under Creative Commons.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to an officemate listening to talk radio, I just heard Lou “Mr. Independent”\u00a0Dobbs, \u00a0follow the new right talking point that the Obama administration is “politicizing” national security. He had on Rep. Pete Hoekstra to claim exactly that, specifically commenting on how the Obama administration “politicized” the Christmas Day bombing – which is especially rich […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,367,4,458,9],"tags":[2602,1279],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criticism","category-national-security","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","category-the-war-on-terrorism","tag-lou-dobbs","tag-pete-hoekstra"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1ga","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}