{"id":94,"date":"2004-08-02T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=94"},"modified":"2004-08-02T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T22:17:24","slug":"kuwait-bans-anti-bush-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/08\/02\/kuwait-bans-anti-bush-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait bans anti-Bush documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/film\/3527000.stm\">From the BBC<\/a>: &#8220;Kuwait has banned Michael Moore&#8217;s controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9\/11, calling the film insulting to the Saudi Arabian royal family.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Authorities in Kuwait, a US ally, also objected to the film&#8217;s criticism of America&#8217;s invasion of Iraq.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8220;We have a law that prohibits insulting friendly nations,&#8221; said Abdul-Aziz Bou Dastour of the Information Ministry.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the bright side, though, at least someone is getting the message out that Moore&#8217;s research methods are questionable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: &#8220;Kuwait has banned Michael Moore&#8217;s controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9\/11, calling the film insulting to the Saudi Arabian royal family.&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moore-is-less"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-1w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}