{"id":40067,"date":"2015-01-27T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40067"},"modified":"2015-01-28T00:30:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:30:34","slug":"mccain-gives-thumbs-up-to-american-sniper-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/27\/mccain-gives-thumbs-up-to-american-sniper-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain gives thumbs up to &#8216;American Sniper&#8217; movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40143\" style=\"width: 612px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/american-sniper-bradley-cooper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40143\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/american-sniper-bradley-cooper.jpg\" alt=\"Bradley Cooper in 'American Sniper'\" width=\"612\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/american-sniper-bradley-cooper.jpg 612w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/american-sniper-bradley-cooper-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bradley Cooper in &#8216;American Sniper&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee says critics of U.S. foreign policy are disparaging the movie, &#8220;American Sniper&#8221; and denigrating the memory of Chris Kyle, the U.S. serviceman depicted in the film.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Monday, Sen. John McCain congratulated director Clint Eastwood and the cast and crew of the movie for honoring the life of Kyle whom he calls an American hero.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Republican says the film offers a compassionate portrayal of service members, their wartime experiences, the burdens they often bear upon returning home and untold sacrifices of their families.<\/p>\n<p>To critics like Michael Moore, a documentary maker, the film glorifies violence.<\/p>\n<p>Moore, a staunch opponent of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, tweeted about the movie: &#8220;Snipers aren&#8217;t heroes, and invaders are worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee says critics of U.S. foreign policy are disparaging the movie, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}