{"id":932,"date":"2004-05-14T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=932"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:54:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:54:27","slug":"932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/932\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Roeper Scores a Twofer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/roeper\/cst-nws-roep13.html\" target=\"new\">his column today<\/a>, Roeper of the <i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i> endears himself to the other half:<\/p>\n<ul><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"2\"><i><i>You go first.\t <\/i><\/i><br \/>\nIn a recent column you brought out the big guns, God and the Vatican,<br \/>\nto condemn Rush Limbaugh for his support of the troops in the so-called<br \/>\nIraqi prisoner abuse. Who you gonna call on now to comment on the<br \/>\ntelevised beheading of an American civilian &#8212; the liberal high<br \/>\nauthority Michael &#8220;Freaky&#8221; Moore? Let&#8217;s just see if this cold-blooded<br \/>\nmurder gets as much air time from the media as the naked butts of Iraqi<br \/>\nprisoners.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"2\"><b>Alberta Dabrowsky, Lake Zurich<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"2\"><i>The entire world<br \/>\nshould be condemning that horrific, cowardly murder. As for press<br \/>\ncoverage: the beheading of the American civilian is a huge story and<br \/>\nwas treated as such. Conservative commentators who seized on this<br \/>\ntragedy to complain that the so-called liberal media was more<br \/>\ninterested in abused Iraqi prisoners than a murdered American civilian<br \/>\nare either lying or stupid.<\/font><\/i><\/ul>\n<p>My response, of course, is that I read his column online every day Monday through Thursday, so I guess it&#8217;s obvious which of the two I am.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Roeper can be reached for comment at <a href=\"mailto:rroeper@suntimes.com\" target=\"new\">rroeper@suntimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his column today, Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times endears himself to the other half: You go first. In a recent column you brought out the big guns, God and the Vatican, to condemn Rush Limbaugh for his support of the troops in the so-called Iraqi prisoner abuse. Who you gonna call on now to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23330,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/23330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}