{"id":21640,"date":"2013-02-27T02:20:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T05:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21640"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:49:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:49:17","slug":"answering-michael-weinstein-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/answering-michael-weinstein-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering Michael Weinstein: Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An advocate of Michael Weinstein&#8217;s MRFF recently said [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consider the fact&#8230;<strong>General Mark A. Welsh <\/strong>III, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, <strong>responded personally and immediately <\/strong>to Mikey Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If the issue were not legitimate<\/strong>&#8230;<strong>I rather doubt General Walsh<\/strong> [<em>sic<\/em>] <strong>would have bothered<\/strong>. Of course, that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s a general&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rightly or wrongly, when Michael Weinstein is given special access to military leaders, it appears to grant credibility to his cause.<\/p>\n<p>Treat him like everybody else &#8212; the &#8220;little people&#8221; who are forced to use normal channels &#8212; and Weinstein loses his ability to grandstand, and with it, the wind from his sails.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t have the patience for such treatment, and he sulks away.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask USAFA.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it looks like somebody <em>did<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advocate of Michael Weinstein&#8217;s MRFF recently said [emphasis added]: Consider the fact&#8230;General Mark A. Welsh III, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, responded personally and immediately to Mikey Weinstein. If the issue were not legitimate&#8230;I rather doubt General Walsh [sic] would have bothered. Of course, that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s a general&#8230; Rightly or wrongly, when Michael Weinstein is given [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,2284,85,2,5218,7,65],"class_list":["post-21640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-mark-welsh","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}