{"id":107,"date":"2004-09-09T00:21:44","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T05:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=107"},"modified":"2004-09-09T00:21:44","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T05:21:44","slug":"creative-editing-is-your-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/09\/09\/creative-editing-is-your-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative editing is your friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Sanchez reluctantly reports on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/006678.shtml\">real story<\/a> behind Dick Cheney&#8217;s &#8220;scare tactics.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>And in context, it&#8217;s actually pretty transparent that this is what Cheney intended. So transparent once you look at the full transcript, in fact, that I wonder whether some of the misreading isn&#8217;t deliberate, either as a partisan tactic or an attempt to generate a news story.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are plenty of people who dislike the Veep, but if you&#8217;re going to dislike someone, you ought to have a good reason for it. (Read the whole thing to find out what Cheney obviously meant. The article is pointed and concise.)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Double freaky. It&#8217;s happened for the second time this week&#8230; now <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/017702.php\">Glenn<\/a> has used my <em><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/srey0123\/iblog\/B448032312\/C379964229\/E2093211875\/index.html\">Spock-with-beard<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/srey0123\/iblog\/B448032312\/C379964229\/E2093211875\/index.html\"> reference<\/a>. Coincidence? Or is it spies? You be the judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Sanchez reluctantly reports on the real story behind Dick Cheney&#8217;s &#8220;scare tactics.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalismation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-1J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}