{"id":385,"date":"2006-09-03T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=385"},"modified":"2006-09-03T22:55:38","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T21:55:38","slug":"al-qaeda-the-propaganda-wing-of-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaeda, the Propaganda wing of the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new message <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/5309376.stm\">Al-Qaeda calls on US to convert<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=13371143&#038;src=rss\/topNews\">Qaeda urges Bush, non-Muslims to embrace Islam<\/a> could not be better GOP propaganda than if Carl Rove wrote it himself. If the goal is to instill fear that Al-Qaeda wants to take away Christianity from the GOP base of Christian fundamentalist this is the best way to fire up them up. Scare the Fundies, upset the moderates, and paint all others as anti-Christian terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Makes you kind of wonder who wrote this, first the Fox reporters, forced to convert to Islam as a trial balloon, then get the GOP propaganda wing, Al-Qaeda to publish a new threat. Sounds like a plan to me!  <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/02\/AR2006090200975.html\">&#8220;&#8230;Republicans are hoping for some outside event that would show the president and their party in a better light &#8212; a spate of good news from Iraq, a foiled terrorist plot &#8230;&#8221;<\/a> a letter from Al-Qaeda?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new message Al-Qaeda calls on US to convert and Qaeda urges Bush, non-Muslims to embrace Islam could not be better GOP propaganda than if Carl Rove wrote it himself. If the goal is to instill fear that Al-Qaeda wants<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=385\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Al Qaeda, the Propaganda wing of the GOP<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8,28,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracies","category-politics","category-psychology","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}