{"id":55578,"date":"2014-10-03T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55578"},"modified":"2014-10-03T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:05:42","slug":"on-the-mendacity-of-being-earnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55578","title":{"rendered":"On the Absurdity of Being Earnest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, speaking about the situation in Dallas:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/wh-we-reminded-border-agents-protocol-after-ebola-case_808448.html\">there &#8220;are screening procedures in place at our border<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sure there are, Mr. Earnest &#8211; sure there are.\u00a0 And the CDC folks in Dallas are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2014\/10\/02\/texas-health-officials-widen-search-for-ebola-patients-contacts-to-100\/\">working desperately to track down and monitor about 100 close contacts of a man who recently came to the US from Liberia<\/a> as part of some readiness exercise, right?<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.\u00a0\u00a0 Compared to these guys, <a href=\"https:\/\/img.4plebs.org\/boards\/pol\/image\/1398\/29\/1398290561890.jpg\">Baghdad Bob<\/a> was as trustworthy as Lincoln.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, speaking about the situation in Dallas:\u00a0 there &#8220;are screening procedures &hellip; <a title=\"On the Absurdity of Being Earnest\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55578\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the Absurdity of Being Earnest<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,177,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55578","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}