{"id":137,"date":"2003-02-06T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2003-02-06T11:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2003-02-06T11:59:02","modified_gmt":"2003-02-06T11:59:02","slug":"jeez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/137","title":{"rendered":"Jeez."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Salon today, we find the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2003\/02\/06\/iraq_poll\/\">harrowing story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the end of the first week of January, the Princeton Survey Research Associates polled more than 1,200 Americans on behalf of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain. They asked a very simple question: &#8220;To the best of your knowledge, how many of the September 11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens?&#8221;   &#8230;Of those surveyed, only 17 percent knew the correct answer: that none of the hijackers were Iraqi. Forty-four percent of Americans believe that most or some of the hijackers were Iraqi; another 6 percent believe that one of the hijackers was a citizen of that most notorious node in the axis of evil. That leaves 33 percent who did not know enough to offer an answer. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would you people wake up, please?  There are going to be a lot of people dying because of the American people&#8217;s susceptibility to the U.S. propaganda department.  (Tip of the hat to the good <A href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenberlinjohnson.com\/\">Steven Berlin Johnson<\/A>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Salon today, we find the following harrowing story: At the end of the first week of January, the Princeton Survey Research Associates polled more than 1,200 Americans on behalf of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain. They asked a very simple question: &#8220;To the best of your knowledge, how many of the September 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4e5QR-jeez","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}