{"id":471,"date":"2009-01-26T20:24:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T20:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2009-01-26T20:24:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T20:24:40","slug":"president_obama_does_first_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Does First Formal Interview With Al-Arabiya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/01\/president-ob-10.html\">ABC News<\/a>, Barack Obama&#8217;s first formal television interview will be with Al-Arabiya, the Middle East cable channel.&nbsp; Al-Arabiya is based&nbsp;in Dubai and has an&nbsp;estimated potential audience exceeding 23 million in the Gulf region.&nbsp; I know he wants to reach out to the Arabs in the Middle East, but I wonder about the wisdom of this.&nbsp; One of the things we need to remember is that there are cultural differences between western and Arab societies.&nbsp; Any action in an Arab culture seem as weakness results in an attack on the person perceived as being weak.&nbsp; I hope this interview is not viewed by the Arab street in that light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ABC News, Barack Obama&#8217;s first formal television interview will be with Al-Arabiya, the Middle East cable channel.&nbsp; Al-Arabiya is based&nbsp;in Dubai and has an&nbsp;estimated potential audience exceeding 23 million in the Gulf region.&nbsp; I know he wants to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}