{"id":187,"date":"2004-07-30T03:50:39","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/the-height-of-cynicism-pt-2\/"},"modified":"2004-07-30T03:50:39","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T11:50:39","slug":"the-height-of-cynicism-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/the-height-of-cynicism-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The height of cynicism Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"\/blog\/archive\/the-height-of-cynicism\">posted a few weeks back<\/a> about a report saying that the Pakistanis were under enormous pressure to come up with a major Al Qaeda operative either during the Democratic National Convention or before the election (credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/\">Josh Marshall<\/a> for originally pointing it out).<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, today only a few hours before John Kerry is to accept the nomination as presidential candidate for his party, there&#8217;s a report of a &quot;top Al Qaeda figure&quot; from all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,127475,00.html\">major<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/07\/29\/pakistan.alqaeda.capture\/index.html\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5550599\/\">sites<\/a>. It&#8217;s not Bin Laden, but Ahmed Ghailani, a suspect in the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa. Note that he was captured on Sunday, but they conveniently waited until now to announce it.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a few weeks back about a report saying that the Pakistanis were under enormous pressure to come up with a major Al Qaeda operative either during the Democratic National Convention or before the election (credit to Josh Marshall for originally pointing it out). Lo and behold, today only a few hours before John <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/the-height-of-cynicism-pt-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-31","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}