{"id":662352,"date":"2010-02-10T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21999"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:27:48","slug":"chris-matthews-on-sarah-palin-an-empty-vessel-ready-to-be-filled-by-ideology-she-doesnt-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/662352","title":{"rendered":"Chris Matthews on Sarah Palin: \u2018An Empty Vessel Ready to be Filled by Ideology She Doesn\u2019t Understand\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish more of the talking heads called out those in positions of influence for what they are, an &#8220;empty vessel&#8221; is an apt description. We need more honest brokers of information. I completely agree, this line of thinking is truly &#8220;frightening&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036697\/\/vp\/35319315#35319315\">Hardball with Chris Matthews<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She&#8217;s frightening. Mark, that is frightening stuff. Frightening. First of all, president don&#8217;t declare war. Anybody knows that in high school. Congress has to declare war. To declare war on Iran, I don&#8217;t think the most far right, Middle East hawk will talk about declaring war on Iran, a country with 70-some million people, with an advanced air force. &#8230; Why does she talk like that? Is Michael Ledeen, a real hawk, writing this stuff for her? I don&#8217;t know anyone as far right as that, besides him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish more of the talking heads called out those in positions of influence for what they are, an &#8220;empty vessel&#8221; is an apt description. We need more honest brokers of information. I completely agree, this line of thinking is truly &#8220;frightening&#8221; (via Hardball with Chris Matthews): She&#8217;s frightening. Mark, that is frightening stuff. Frightening. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Mj6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762006,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662352\/revisions\/762006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}