{"id":34622,"date":"2018-05-31T05:54:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34622"},"modified":"2018-05-31T05:54:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:54:23","slug":"may-you-live-in-stupid-corrupt-and-yet-fascinating-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34622","title":{"rendered":"May You Live in Stupid, Corrupt and yet Fascinating Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header \">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2018\/05\/30\/may-you-live-in-stupid-corrupt-and-yet-fascinating-times\/\">May You Live in Stupid, Corrupt and yet Fascinating Times<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><strong><em>In the old days, America\u2019s top spies would complete their tenures at the CIA or one of the other Washington puzzle palaces and segue to more ordinary pursuits. Some\u00a0wrote\u00a0their\u00a0memoirs. One ran for\u00a0president. Another\u00a0died\u00a0a few months after surrendering his post. But today\u2019s national-security establishment retiree has a different game plan. After so many years of brawling in the shadows, he yearns for a second, lucrative career in the public eye. He takes a crash course in speaking in soundbites, refreshes his wardrobe and signs a TV news contract. Then, several times a week, waits for a network limousine to shuttle him to the broadcast news studios where, after a light dusting of foundation and a spritz of hairspray, he takes a supporting role in the anchors\u2019 nighttime shows.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <em>Politico<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/02\/06\/john-brennan-james-claper-michael-hayden-former-cia-media-216943\">The Spies Who Came in to the TV Studio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>May you live in stupid, corrupt and yet fascinating times.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Me, paraphrasing a Chinese curse<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been away the past couple of weeks taking a break with my family. I paid attention to the news, but from a distance. As usual, there\u2019s plenty to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 24 hours alone, we\u2019ve seen political chaos erupt in Italy and hordes of pundits simultaneously\u00a0lose their minds over the murder of a prominent Russian journalist that never happened. Such is the world we live in. Stupid, corrupt, yet fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the things I could\u2019ve written about, you may be surprised by today\u2019s selection. It\u2019s a clip many of you probably saw where Richard Stengel (who was <em>Time<\/em> Magazine\u2019s managing editor from 2006-2013) admits he approves of government propagandizing its own citizens during a Council on Foreign Relations forum. Here\u2019s the clip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May You Live in Stupid, Corrupt and yet Fascinating Times In the old days, America\u2019s top spies would complete their tenures at the CIA or one of the other Washington puzzle palaces and segue to more ordinary pursuits. Some\u00a0wrote\u00a0their\u00a0memoirs. One ran for\u00a0president. Another\u00a0died\u00a0a few months after surrendering his post. But today\u2019s national-security establishment retiree has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,953,379,462,4285,512,6174,655,20284,3803,865],"class_list":["post-34622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-council-on-foreign-relations","tag-government","tag-journalism","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-media","tag-michael-krieger","tag-propaganda","tag-richard-stengel","tag-time-magazine","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34623,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions\/34623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}