{"id":5914,"date":"2009-07-23T00:38:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2009-07-23T00:38:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T05:38:04","slug":"john-yoo-pranked-by-australian-comedy-team-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/07\/john-yoo-pranked-by-australian-comedy-team-video\/","title":{"rendered":"John Yoo Pranked By Australian Comedy Team (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/07\/s-JOHN-YOO-large.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" alt=\"s-JOHN-YOO-large.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/07\/22\/australian-comedy-team-pr_n_242854.html\">\n<p>Via Boing Boing comes a video from the Australian comedy show &#8220;The Chaser&#8217;s War on Everything,&#8221; that shows a man dressed as an Abu Ghraib prisoner disrupting one of John Yoo&#8217;s classes (he currently lectures at Berkeley and Chapman University). Yoo, formerly of the Department of Justice, played a key role in the Bush administration&#8217;s justification of torture.<\/p>\n<p>The actor climbed on a desk while Yoo was discussing constitutionality and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got one question, how long can I be required to stand here &#8217;til it counts as torture?&#8221; When Yoo ended the class and a student yelled at the actor to leave he said, &#8220;I&#8217;d love to move but every time I do my balls get buzzed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was later physically escorted out of the classroom by a school official.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/07\/22\/australian-comedy-team-pr_n_242854.html\" ><cite>John Yoo Pranked By Australian Comedy Team (VIDEO)<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/07\/s-JOHN-YOO-large.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" alt=\"s-JOHN-YOO-large.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/>   Via Boing Boing comes a video from the Australian comedy show &#8220;The Chaser&#8217;s War on Everything,&#8221; that shows a man dressed as an Abu Ghraib prisoner disrupting one of John Yoo&#8217;s classes (he currently lectures at Berkeley and Chapman University). &#8230;  The actor climbed on a desk while Yoo was discussing constitutionality and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got one question, how long can I be required to stand here &#8217;til it counts as torture?&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1xo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}