{"id":8828,"date":"2009-02-01T17:58:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T14:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:41:10","slug":"would-washington-post-writer-david-ignatius-put-his-arm-on-president-obama-during-a-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/02\/01\/would-washington-post-writer-david-ignatius-put-his-arm-on-president-obama-during-a-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Would &#8216;Washington Post&#8217; writer David Ignatius put his arm on President Obama during a debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"entry-header\">Phil Weiss<\/h5>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And yes, while Ignatius has been forward-thinking\/realist since, he can be justly scored, I think, for putting his hand on the Turkish Prime Minister to stop the debate so everyone could go to dinner the other night at Davos. It&#8217;s easy to say this in retrospect, but there was no sense on Ignatius&#8217;s part of the Moment. <strong>Ignatius should have extended the time to let both men finish their points, Peres and Erdogan<\/strong>. Let the stomachs grumble. As it is, he appeared to dis the P.M.&#8211;and as we see, <strong>appearance is everything in these matters<\/strong>&#8211;and <strong>failed to recognize that when you give a stage to a man defending the slaughter of 450 children, the placement of the salad fork should not be the highest concern, a structural problem with the Establishment, <\/strong>in my humble opinion.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8829\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">...and I&#39;m to blame?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Source: www.philipweiss.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Weiss [&#8230;] And yes, while Ignatius has been forward-thinking\/realist since, he can be justly scored, I think, for putting his hand on the Turkish Prime Minister to stop the debate so everyone could go to dinner the other night at Davos. It&#8217;s easy to say this in retrospect, but there was no sense on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":106713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,148,155,922],"tags":[1021,997,1018],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-israel","category-palestinianna","category-world","tag-david-ignatius","tag-davos","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}