{"id":4392,"date":"2013-09-04T23:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T04:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2013-09-04T23:41:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T04:41:30","slug":"yeah-they-call-me-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4392","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, they call me that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Rumsfeld doubles down on the downplayer when he both uses the &#8216;so-called&#8217; qualifier and marks the usage with tone when he characterizes President Obama&#8217;s role as Commander in Chief (video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/rumsfeld-obama-commander-chief\/2013\/09\/04\/id\/523783\">HERE<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact that the American people are confused, and the fact that the Congress seems uncertain, and the international community is not supportive, is a reflection of the fact that<strong> the so-called commander in chief<\/strong> has not been acting as a commander in chief<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Downplayer? Check. Modus tonens? Check.\u00c2\u00a0 Answers about whether the reasons for the Iraq invasion were worse or better than Obama&#8217;s reasons for Syria? Whoops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Rumsfeld doubles down on the downplayer when he both uses the &#8216;so-called&#8217; qualifier and marks the usage with tone when he characterizes President Obama&#8217;s role as Commander in Chief (video HERE): The fact that the American people are confused, and the fact that the Congress seems uncertain, and the international community is not supportive, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yeah, they call me that<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[730],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-downplayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4394,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}