{"id":1022,"date":"2014-05-30T13:09:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2014-05-30T13:09:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:09:54","slug":"after-further-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/30\/after-further-consideration\/","title":{"rendered":"After Further Consideration&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promised I&#8217;d write something about NBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/edward-snowden-interview\/watch-primetime-special-inside-mind-edward-snowden-n117126\" target=\"new\">interview<\/a> with Eddie The Ops Guy.<\/p>\n<p>The flippant answer is channeling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kw5UWqpcsDs&#038;feature=kp\" target=\"new\">Dennis Green<\/a>, and that this is just a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=sweep&#038;defid=1807209\" target=\"new\">sweeps<\/a> bit.  (Guess Andy Fox chasing after cars ain&#8217;t workin&#8217; anymore&#8230;.)  I&#8217;ve written about Eddie The Ops Guy a <a href=\"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=693\" target=\"new\">couple<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=890\" target=\"new\">times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I found three decent reaction pieces on the interview.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/30\/anchor-vs-fugitive-how-brian-williams-played-it-safe-with-ed-snowden\/\" target=\"new\">Howard Kurtz<\/a> (Someone I used in college, and his coverage of the Clinton Impeachment.  You know, college, that place the high school dropout Eddie has never even considered.)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2014-05-29\/entertainment\/bal-edward-snowden-interview-brian-williams-nbc-20140528_1_edward-snowden-nbc-news-brian-williams\" target=\"new\">Baltimore Sun<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And the best one from the <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/29\/what-brian-williams-should-have-asked-snowden\/?_php=true&#038;_type=blogs&#038;_r=0\" target=\"new\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The interview didn&#8217;t really answer much, but it did reconfirm my initial suspicions about the guy.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a self-important douchenozzle.<\/p>\n<p>I kept waiting for him to invoke the name of his lord and savior, <b>RON PAUL<\/b>, but he never did.<\/p>\n<p>If you, fundamentally, have a problem with what the people you work for are doing, <u><i>you <b>quit<\/b><\/i><\/u>.  <b>GTFO<\/b>.  If it&#8217;s so egregious, then you go to the authorities.  You don&#8217;t steal things, then run off to places hostile for security.<\/p>\n<p>If you really think you were defending American values, why are you so scared of allowing its systems of justice and redress to work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised I&#8217;d write something about NBC&#8217;s interview with Eddie The Ops Guy. The flippant answer is channeling Dennis Green, and that this is just a sweeps bit. (Guess Andy Fox chasing after cars ain&#8217;t workin&#8217; anymore&#8230;.) I&#8217;ve written about Eddie The Ops Guy a couple of times. I found three decent reaction pieces on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}