{"id":5787,"date":"2014-06-05T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T11:22:14","slug":"what-say-you-col-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5787","title":{"rendered":"What say you, Col. North?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Allow me to stipulate right off the top that I am acutely aware that the source of this blog post is an admittedly progressive pundit who routinely criticizes conservatives on her nightly TV talk show.<\/p>\n

However, the point made here is a valid one.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/oliver-north-and-maximum-absurdity<\/p>\n

Many Americans are steamed over the terms of the deal that brought about the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. One of them — are you ready? — who’s really angry about it is former Marine Corps Lt. Col. Oliver North, the former principal character in another hostage-release deal that, um, drew a lot of attention to a Republican<\/em> president.<\/p>\n

As it is stated in the link attached here, it is almost beyond comprehension that this guy, of all people, would have anything to say at all publicly about a deal that involves “negotiating” with enemy agents. He was involved up to his armpits in precisely such a deal. It brought shame and, yes, scandal<\/em> to President Reagan’s administration. He also was actually convicted of a crime, although his conviction was overturned on appeal.<\/p>\n

Still, for Ollie North to weigh in … well, there’s your benchmark for absurdity.<\/p>\n\n

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Allow me to stipulate right off the top that I am acutely aware that the source of this blog post is an admittedly progressive pundit who routinely criticizes conservatives on her nightly TV talk show. However, the point made here is a valid one. http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/oliver-north-and-maximum-absurdity Many Americans are steamed over the terms of the deal … Continue reading What say you, Col. North?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[167,722,2321,3155,3411,3801,3850,4501,5246],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afghan-war","tag-bowe-bergdahl","tag-iran-contra","tag-msnbc","tag-oliver-north","tag-rachel-maddow","tag-reagan-administration","tag-taliban","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}