{"id":4129,"date":"2011-02-18T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2011-02-18T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:40:46","slug":"friday-link-wrap-up-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4129","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muammar Gaddafi, like any good magician, <a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/tunisiaNews\/idAFLDE71C0KP20110213?sp=true\" target=\"_blank\">is employing misdirection<\/a> to try to avoid happening to him what is happening in other Arab countries. &#8220;Hey Palestinians, let&#8217;s you and him fight!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is the Obama White House turning social media into <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/president-obama-white-house-media-operation-state-run\/story?id=12913319\" target=\"_blank\">State Run Media 2.0<\/a>?\u00a0 There&#8217;s a bit of media sour grapes in that charge, but it&#8217;s also true that the more the White House does an end-run around the media, the more they can paint with whatever rose-colored paintbrush they want.<\/p>\n<p>Really, <a href=\"http:\/\/turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2011\/02\/16\/in_major_reversal_us_to_rebuke_israel_in_security_council\" target=\"_blank\">is Israel the main problem in the Middle East<\/a>? Even those who are protesting in Arab countries are protesting <em>their own governments<\/em>, not Israel.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/bill-maher-doesnt-think-obama-is-a-christian\/\" target=\"_blank\">if Obama has lost Bill Maher<\/a>, he&#8217;s lost liberal America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muammar Gaddafi, like any good magician, is employing misdirection to try to avoid happening to him what is happening in other Arab countries. &#8220;Hey Palestinians, let&#8217;s you and him fight!&#8221; Is the Obama White House turning social media into State Run Media 2.0?\u00a0 There&#8217;s a bit of media sour grapes in that charge, but it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,21,60,22,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-israel","category-liberal","category-links","category-media","category-middle-east"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}