{"id":680,"date":"2008-05-29T13:59:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T17:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2008-05-29T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T17:59:40","slug":"we-cant-have-nice-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"We can’t have nice things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary, has written a book which by all accounts is quite critical of his former boss's handling of the Iraq war, among other things.  Does McClellan have interesting things to say?  Most certainly.  He worked there, after all.  Is he right?  Maybe.  But you can bet on one thing, we're not going to get a lot of enlightened discussion of this from those who run our nation's public discourse.  Here, for instance, is Fox News' Gretchen Carlson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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CARLSON: Scott McClellan better not have any skeletons in his closet.<\/strong> I hope he didn’t do anything that he doesn’t want the world to know about because we all have, and all of his secrets are going to be coming out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We've already heard a litany of "he's-only-saying-that-because-of-x-y-or-z<\/a>" remarks.  This one is different in its completely irrelevant reference to things "we all have" in our past.  As my parents used to say, this is why we can't have nice things.<\/p>\n

**Courtesy of Think Progress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary, has written a book which by all accounts is quite critical of his former boss's handling of the Iraq war, among other things.  Does McClellan have interesting things to say?  Most certainly.  He worked there, after all.  Is he right?  Maybe.  But you can bet on one thing, … Continue reading We can’t have nice things<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,35,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad-hominem","category-tu-quoque","category-op-ed-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}