{"id":15689,"date":"2009-11-19T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15689"},"modified":"2009-11-19T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T22:29:07","slug":"army-keeps-media-from-palin-book-signing-at-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15689","title":{"rendered":"Army keeps media from Palin book signing at Bragg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091119\/ap_on_en_ot\/us_palin_fort_bragg;_ylt=AnA0V9uv7cXncScajbGxpBZvzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTJrdHIxdjd1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMTE5L3VzX3BhbGluX2ZvcnRfYnJhZ2cEY3BvcwMzBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA2FwbmV3c2JyZWFrYQ--\">Um, huh?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum told The Associated Press that Bragg&#8217;s garrison commander and other Army officials had decided to keep media away from Palin&#8217;s book promotion. He said the Army did not want the Monday event to become a platform to express political opinions &#8220;directed against the commander in chief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main reason is to stop this from turning into a political platform,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are Army regulations that basically prohibit military reservations from becoming political platforms by politicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said only one politician can use that platform, &#8220;and that person does it as our commander in chief.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I seem to remember;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obama-in-afghanistan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obama-in-afghanistan-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"obama-in-afghanistan\" title=\"obama-in-afghanistan\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obama-in-afghanistan-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obama-in-afghanistan.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The military seems to be overcompensating these days in order to overcome the perception that they dislike Obama (whether that perception is true or not, I&#8217;ll leave for another discussion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um, huh? Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum told The Associated Press that Bragg&#8217;s garrison commander and &hellip; <a title=\"Army keeps media from Palin book signing at Bragg\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15689\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army keeps media from Palin book signing at Bragg<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}