{"id":217,"date":"2003-03-11T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2003-03-11T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=217"},"modified":"2003-03-11T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2003-03-11T22:30:09","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/03\/11\/getting-ready-for-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready For The Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there was ever any doubt that America will go to war with Iraq regardless of what happens at the United Nations, the fact that the stage for this drama has literally been sent to the Gulf should erase those doubts.
\nUSA Today reports that the Pentagon has shipped a $250,000 briefing stage to Qatar. Via FedEx. With a shipping cost of $47,000.
\nAs the stage’s Hollywood designer, George Allison, rightly points out, that’s chump change for the U.S. military. But read his quote, and tell me you don’t want to see this man strapped to a bomb a la<\/span> Dr. Strangelove.
\nLights, cameras, get ready for war<\/a>
\nUSATODAY.com<\/p>\n

Allison, interviewed while overseeing set construction last week, said the cost of the briefing stage is justified.
\n“It’s much cheaper than one bomb, and it can do a lot more. It is the face of the military,” he said. “What’s important is not what they’re standing in front of, the set, but the ability to communicate with members of the press.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s no business like show business, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there was ever any doubt that America will go to war with Iraq regardless of what happens at the United Nations, the fact that the stage for this drama has literally been sent to the Gulf should erase those doubts. USA Today reports that the Pentagon has shipped a $250,000 briefing stage to Qatar.… Continue reading Getting Ready For The Show<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-journalism-blogs","category-politics-policy-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-3v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}