{"id":15097,"date":"2003-04-01T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/01\/dicks-of-the-day-3\/"},"modified":"2003-04-01T00:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T00:39:00","slug":"dicks-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/01\/dicks-of-the-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dicks Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/meast\/03\/31\/sprj.irq.arnett\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Arnett<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/04\/01\/international\/worldspecial\/01MEDI.html?ex=1049778000&amp;en=a64d9f5350b9c29c&amp;ei=5062&amp;partner=GOOGLE\" target=\"_blank\">Geraldo Rivera<\/a> both deserve to get their asses fired and kicked out of Iraq, but I would take it a step further.  To prove that the security of our military forces is not a matter to be taken lightly for the sake of ratings, they both need to be prosecuted when they return to the States.  Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enquirer.com\/editions\/2003\/04\/02\/loc_rail.bunning02.html\" target=\"_blank\">treason<\/a> is going a bit far, but I think that something appropriate can be arranged.  I firmly believe that this &ldquo;embedded journalist&rdquo; concept is an accident waiting to happen; it&rsquo;s too damn easy for someone to slip up or intentionally reveal information that can be used against our troops.  Maybe Peter Arnett didn&rsquo;t directly endanger soldiers like Geraldo did when he revealed troop movements, but Arnett&rsquo;s remarks were perhaps even worse, because they bolstered Iraqi propaganda against the war effort, something much more damaging in the long run.  What a couple of dicks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> The Borowitz Report hilariously reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/borowitzreport.com\/archive_rpt.asp?rec=556\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Geraldo gives precise location of Peter Arnett.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200075936?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Arnett and Geraldo Rivera both deserve to get their asses fired and kicked out of Iraq, but I would take it a step further. To prove that the security of our military forces is not a matter to be taken lightly for the sake of ratings, they both need to be prosecuted when they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/01\/dicks-of-the-day-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dicks Of The Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}