{"id":74,"date":"2006-12-01T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T03:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/01\/experts-weigh-in\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T03:24:38","slug":"experts-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/politics\/experts-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Weigh In"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an otherwise rather dry article by Marc Sandalow, Washington Bureau Chief, in today’s San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> (the topic is the administration’s Iraq “policy”), one encounters this astonishing sentence, delivered apparently without a hint of irony:<\/p>\n

“Yet, some experts say it would be foolhardy to assume, just because Bush said it, that the statement is true.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, damn! Who would have guessed? Thank heavens for the experts! Without the experts I would probably just have gone on assuming it was all gospel. But now my eyes have been opened.<\/p>\n

So, thank you, experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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