{"id":35772,"date":"2013-05-23T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=35772"},"modified":"2013-05-23T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:30:38","slug":"salon-obama-heckled-at-national-security-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/05\/23\/salon-obama-heckled-at-national-security-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon: Obama heckled at national security speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s counterterrorism speech was interrupted by a heckler, identified as Code Pink\u2019s Medea Benjamin by reporters at the speech, who spoke about the Administration\u2019s use of drones and the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m willing to cut the young lady who interrupted me so slack, because it\u2019s worth being passionate about,\u201d Obama said. He added: \u201cI obviously don\u2019t agree with much of what she said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill you tell the Muslim people their lives are as precious as our lives?\u201d she yelled, as she was being escorted out. \u201cCan you take the drones out of the hands of the CIA? Can you stop the signature strikes that are killing people on the basis of suspicious activities? Will you apologize to the thousands of Muslims that you have killed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat will make us safer,\u201d she added.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/05\/23\/obama_heckled_at_national_security_speech\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s counterterrorism speech was interrupted by a heckler, identified as Code Pink\u2019s Medea Benjamin by reporters at the speech, who spoke about the Administration\u2019s use of drones and the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. \u201cI\u2019m willing to cut the young lady who interrupted me so slack, because it\u2019s worth being passionate about,\u201d Obama said. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35773,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35772\/revisions\/35773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}