{"id":45322,"date":"2013-06-19T00:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T07:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=45322"},"modified":"2014-12-29T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:54:09","slug":"when-you-tell-a-lie-mr-president-make-it-a-big-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/06\/when-you-tell-a-lie-mr-president-make-it-a-big-one.html","title":{"rendered":"When you Tell a Lie, Mr. President, Make it a Big One"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><tt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeedpolitics\/president-obama-defends-nsa-spying\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">President defends domestic NSA program as 'transparent'...<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/06\/obama-im-not-dick-cheney-92925.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>I'm no 'Dick Cheney'...<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/tt><\/p>\n<p>The first lie is the biggest one; the second lie is the funniest.\u00a0 It\u2019s true you\u2019re no Dick Cheney, Obama.\u00a0 The truth is, you\u2019re worse, and that takes some doing.<\/p>\n<p>Is this man capable of taking *any* responsibility for what he does?\u00a0 Does every single thing he does have to be compared to Bush\/Cheney with blame always assigned to them and virtue perpetually assigned to himself?\u00a0 Dude, you\u2019re the President.\u00a0 The stuff Greenwald exposed is stuff *you* are doing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President defends domestic NSA program as &#8216;transparent&#8217;&#8230; I&#8217;m no &#8216;Dick Cheney&#8217;&#8230; The first lie is the biggest one; the second lie is the funniest.\u00a0 It\u2019s true you\u2019re no Dick Cheney, Obama.\u00a0 The truth is, you\u2019re worse, and that takes some doing. Is this man capable of taking *any* responsibility for what he does?\u00a0 Does every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,65],"class_list":["post-45322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-our-ruling-class-vs-the-rest-of-us","tag-the-god-king"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When you Tell a Lie, Mr. President, Make it a Big One<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President defends domestic NSA program as &#039;transparent&#039;... I&#039;m no &#039;Dick Cheney&#039;... 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