{"id":5763,"date":"2011-02-14T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:32:52","slug":"quote-of-the-day-283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-283\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We can debate whether <strong>Iraq<\/strong> now is in better shape than <strong>Egypt<\/strong>, but what  is not debatable is <strong>David Brooks<\/strong>&#8216;s assertion that <strong>Saddam<\/strong> [<strong>Hussein<\/strong>] would shoot anyone  who dared protest in public, or in private, for that matter. He was a  terrifically brutal and genocidal dictator who made <strong>Hosni Mubarak<\/strong> look  like <strong>Bernie Sanders<\/strong>.&#8221; &#8212; Atlantic <em>correspondent <strong>Jeffrey Goldberg<\/strong>, pondering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/02\/could-a-new-age-of-repression-be-coming\/71210\/\" target=\"_blank\">the possible ripple effects<\/a> of the overthrow of Egypt&#8217;s government &#8212;\u00a0 including tighter repression in the <strong>Middle East<\/strong>, which is viewed by <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> and others as a new Promised Land of casino expansion<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We can debate whether Iraq now is in better shape than Egypt, but what is not debatable is David Brooks&#8216;s assertion that Saddam [Hussein] would shoot anyone who dared protest in public, or in private, for that matter. He was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-283\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,37,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}