{"id":5135,"date":"2010-06-14T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2010-06-22T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T14:03:51","slug":"friedmans-credibility-gulf-national-review-06-14-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/friedmans-credibility-gulf-national-review-06-14-10","title":{"rendered":"Friedman&#8217;s Credibility Gulf (National Review, 06.14.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reeling President Obama and his media allies are trying to turn the damage of the Gulf spill to their advantage. The spill is a cry from Mother Earth, they say, that we end our \u201caddiction to oil\u201d and pass cap-and-trade.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The New York Times\u2019s Tom Friedman does his bit in his Sunday column, \u201cThis Time Is Different,\u201d and it is a marvelous piece of self-parody from the Greendaddy of green columnists.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cWe have met the enemy and he is us,\u201d writes Friedman. We?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Friedman is a rich journalist who makes his living jetting around the globe on carbon-burning airplanes researching, hawking books, and speaking to rotary clubs. When he\u2019s not guzzling jet fuel, he\u2019s driving home in his Prius to his 11,000 square-foot Maryland home. . . <\/P><\/p>\n<p>Read full article <a href=http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/planet-gore\/204141\/friedman-s-credibility-gulf\/henry-payne>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reeling President Obama and his media allies are trying to turn the damage of the Gulf spill to their advantage. The spill is a cry from Mother Earth, they say, that we end our \u201caddiction to oil\u201d and pass cap-and-trade. The New York Times\u2019s Tom Friedman does his bit in his Sunday column, \u201cThis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}