{"id":9648,"date":"2016-09-28T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9648"},"modified":"2016-10-03T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:38:01","slug":"bombing-libya-vs-the-beefy-beauty-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/bombing-libya-vs-the-beefy-beauty-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombing Libya vs. the Beefy Beauty Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media is far more upset about Trump&#8217;s comments about a 1996 beefy beauty contestant than about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s carnage in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and other places.<\/p>\n<p>My question for Hillary Clinton supporters: How many innocent people is a progressive prez candidate permitted to kill?<\/p>\n<p>Josef Stalin supposedly said: &#8220;A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that should be updated for the 2016 campaign: &#8220;A single slur is an outrage; thousands of deaths are&#8230;. who cares?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is far more upset about Trump&#8217;s comments about a 1996 beefy beauty contestant than about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s carnage in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and other places. My question for Hillary Clinton supporters: How many innocent people is a progressive prez candidate permitted to kill? Josef Stalin supposedly said: &#8220;A Single Death is [&hellip;]<\/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":[911,450,339,401,910,708],"class_list":["post-9648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beefy","tag-bombing","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-libya","tag-stalin","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bombing Libya vs. the Beefy Beauty Queen - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/bombing-libya-vs-the-beefy-beauty-queen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bombing Libya vs. the Beefy Beauty Queen - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The media is far more upset about Trump&#8217;s comments about a 1996 beefy beauty contestant than about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s carnage in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and other places. 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