{"id":376612,"date":"2018-09-08T21:01:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-i-am-not-spartacus\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T21:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T20:01:43","slug":"roaming-charges-i-am-not-spartacus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-i-am-not-spartacus\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: \u201cI Am Not Spartacus!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>+ The big question now circulating amid the cubicles of the Gray Lady: \u00a0Who will Anonymous replace as a regular columnist at the <em>New York Times<\/em>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A. Brett Stephens<br \/>\nB. David Brooks<br \/>\nC. Thomas Friedman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>+ Will anyone notice the difference?<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0Anyone who denied being Anonymous should be suspected of being Anonymous. Those who denied the quickest and most vehemently (Mike Pence and Melania) are, naturally, the leading suspects.<\/p>\n<p>+ As Claud Cockburn advised us many years ago: &#8220;Never believe anything until it has be officially denied.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>+ Trump wants Anon to be <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/405283-trump-lays-into-ny-times-over-op-ed-demands-they-turn-source-over-to\">turned over to the government<\/a> and tried for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/06\/politics\/donald-trump-white-house\/index.html\">treason<\/a>. He would set up his own band of White House plumbers, but the only people he know trusts are family and none of them have any experience with a basin wrench. Except for Melania, who is a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>+ Noted civil libertarian Rand Paul advised Trump to subject his entire administration to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/rand-paul-trump-justified-lie-detector-tests-find-anonymous-new-york-times-author\">lie detector tests<\/a> to ferret out the traitorous columnist. The Trump administration has apparently come up with a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-pence-pompeo-anonymous-op-ed.html\">12 suspects<\/a>. JC had his 12 apostles, Trump has his 12 apostates. Could it all end like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/172152116X\/counterpunchmaga\">Murder on the Orient Express<\/a>: they all did it?<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a010 days after the publication of All the President&#8217;s Men, this article appears in the Wall Street Journal, where the FBI&#8217;s Mark Felt denies being &#8220;Deep Throat&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/DmXwjkFW4AAyTCz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p>+ Ironically, Felt, it will be recalled by connoisseurs of Watergate, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/how-deep-throat-fooled-fbi\/\">charged by Nixon<\/a> to track down who was leaking to Woodward and Bernstein&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0Trump wants Beauregard to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/09\/07\/roaming-charges-i-am-not-spartacus\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>+ The big question now circulating amid the cubicles of the Gray Lady: \u00a0Who will Anonymous replace as a regular columnist at the New York Times? A. Brett Stephens B. David Brooks C. Thomas Friedman + Will anyone notice the difference? +\u00a0Anyone who denied being Anonymous should be suspected of being Anonymous. Those who denied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}