{"id":609,"date":"2007-03-10T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/609"},"modified":"2007-03-10T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T18:31:56","slug":"finally-a-policy-on-gays-in-the-military-in-tune-with-republican-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/609","title":{"rendered":"Finally, A Policy On Gays In The Military In Tune With Republican Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who still think the &quot;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&quot; policy has been a resounding success, <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Colbert_Report_An_army_of_mum_0308.html\">Stephan Colbert has a great suggestion<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Responding to legislation introduced in Congress last week seeking to discontinue the military&#8217;s &quot;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&quot; policy, Comedy Central&#8217;s fake pundit Stephen Colbert offered his own set of policy prescriptions to those who wish gays should be allowed to openly serve in the military.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Folks, we are approaching a dangerous level of tolerance,&quot; Colbert mockingly proclaimed Wednesday night on his show. &quot;That is why I am encouraging the Pentagon to adopt an even stricter policy, &#8216;Don&#8217;t Know, Don&#8217;t Think.&#8217; Under the new policy, it will be against regulations for a soldier to even know what homosexuality is.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes a perfect fit with all their other domestic policies, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who still think the &quot;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&quot; policy has been a resounding success, Stephan Colbert has a great suggestion&#8230; Responding to legislation introduced in Congress last week seeking to discontinue the military&#8217;s &quot;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&quot; policy, Comedy Central&#8217;s fake pundit Stephen Colbert offered his own set of policy prescriptions to those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-bushs-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}