{"id":3859,"date":"2006-11-29T14:01:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T22:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2006-12-01T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T21:01:03","slug":"video-gore-vidal-comments-on-president-bush-and-the-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3859","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Gore Vidal Comments on George W. Bush and the Iraq War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WesNQtLjXqI\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WesNQtLjXqI\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"3\" borders=\"3\" align=\"left\"><\/embed><\/object>Gore Vidal was typically funny and outspoken during an appearance yesterday on <em>Late Night on PBS<\/em> with Tavis Smiley.  This clip (5:08) includes Vidal&#8217;s views on Bush and Iraq as well as the following descriptive quote:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">But because of our crazy little President. &#8216;I&#8217;m war-time President, I&#8217;m war-time President.&#8217; You know, quack quack quack quack quack. I mean, this is a loon. Any fool can see that he is looney.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer Gore Vidal was typically funny and outspoken during an appearance yesterday on Late Night on PBS with Tavis Smiley. This clip (5:08) includes Vidal&#8217;s views on Bush and Iraq as well as the following descriptive quote: But because of our crazy little President. &#8216;I&#8217;m war-time President, I&#8217;m war-time President.&#8217; You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-war","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}