{"id":5499,"date":"2012-07-15T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T20:56:11","slug":"from-salon-harold-ford-jr-smirking-sociopath-glenn-greenwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/from-salon-harold-ford-jr-smirking-sociopath-glenn-greenwald\/","title":{"rendered":"(from Salon)  &#8216;Harold Ford, Jr.: smirking sociopath&#8217;  &#8212;Glenn Greenwald"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Harold Ford Jr., sleazy corporatist and nepotist, offers up a particularly grotesque defense of U.S. aggression<\/h2>\n<p>By Glenn Greenwald<\/p>\n<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Harold Ford, Jr. is the walking, breathing embodiment of virtually everything rotted and corrupt about the American political class&#8230;This morning, Ford, as he often is, was on <em>Morning Joe <\/em>(independently significant is that fact that one of the most prolific NBC\/MSNBC political commentators \u2014 a Democrat \u2014 is also a senior Wall Street executive).\u00a0The show devoted a six-minute segment to\u00a0<em>Esquire<\/em>\u2018s Tom\u00a0Junod, who \u2014 as I noted earlier today \u2014 has just published\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/obama-lethal-presidency-0812\">a worthwhile and heartfelt article<\/a>\u00a0entitled \u201cThe Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama,\u201d which examines in depth the multiple ways the President has seized the power to kill; in one section, Junod reports on the U.S. killing of 16-year-old Abdulrahman Awlaki in Yemen, and\u00a0<em>Esquire<\/em>\u00a0has\u00a0published that section separately\u00a0under this headline: \u201c<strong>Obama\u2019s Administration Killed a 16-Year-Old American and Didn\u2019t Say Anything About It. This Is Justice?<\/strong>\u201d In the <em>Morning Joe\u00a0<\/em>segment, Junod repeatedly documented the numerous innocent Muslims \u2014 including children \u2014 that are continuously killed by Obama\u2019s attacks, such as the 16-year-old Denver-born son of the Islamic preacher, a mere two weeks after his father was killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CLICK THE IMAGE TO READ THE STORY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/09\/harold_ford_jr_smirking_sociopath\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5500\" title=\"ford_rect3-460x307\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ford_rect3-460x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ford_rect3-460x307.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ford_rect3-460x307-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE JUNE-JULY Z <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/09\/harold_ford_jr_smirking_sociopath\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Ford Jr., sleazy corporatist and nepotist, offers up a particularly grotesque defense of U.S. aggression By Glenn Greenwald AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 Harold Ford, Jr. is the walking, breathing embodiment of virtually everything rotted and corrupt about the American political class&#8230;This morning, Ford, as he often is, was on Morning Joe (independently significant is that fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5504,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}