{"id":1881,"date":"2008-11-04T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2008-11-04T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:00:39","slug":"now-thats-how-you-foil-an-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Now, <i>That&#8217;s<\/i> How You Foil an Assassination Attempt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/thepile\/videos\/34590\/Barack_Obama_and_Sarah_Palin_in_Mercenaries_2.html\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u201cSay WHAT?\u201d\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/screen44.jpg\" title=\"\u201cSay WHAT?\u201d\" alt=\"\u201cSay WHAT?\u201d\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As expected, EA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandemicstudios.com\/mercenaries\/index.php\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Mercenaries 2: World in Flames<\/em><\/a> (Xbox 360\/PS3) is, reportedly, execrable, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearfuse.com\/mercenaries-2-dlc-palin-and-obama-skins\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Gearfuse.com calls it &#8220;the most mediocre game ever.&#8221;<\/a> But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/thepile\/videos\/34590\/Barack_Obama_and_Sarah_Palin_in_Mercenaries_2.html\"  target=\"_blank\">this promised DLC (downloadable content) pack, letting you play as Sarah Palin or Barack Obama<\/a>, has got to be the chilly-most-sweet thing <em>ever<\/em> for the next two hours.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As you&#8217;ll see in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/thepile\/videos\/34590\/Barack_Obama_and_Sarah_Palin_in_Mercenaries_2.html\"  target=\"_blank\">this 1:31 clip<\/a>, not only does Obama, above, loudly &#8220;SMACK!&#8221; the gun from the hands of a disgruntled soldier, but, grabbing the miscreant&#8217;s grenade, clears his tank with the pineapple before making tracks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/thepile\/videos\/34590\/Barack_Obama_and_Sarah_Palin_in_Mercenaries_2.html\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u201cI need a drink!\u201d\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/screen47.jpg\" title=\"\u201cI need a drink!\u201d\" alt=\"\u201cI need a drink!\u201d\" align=\"right\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile, Palin, right, stomps through an empty bar, looking for Joe Sixpack, before shimmying up a helicopter grappling hook, smacking the pilot&#8217;s skull against the instrument panel,  dumping him out the seat, and taking control. Yo: Who needs foreign policy when you&#8217;ve got a rocket launcher?<\/p>\n<p>[via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.boingboing.net\/2008\/10\/31\/mercenaries-2-dlc-le.html\"  target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, EA&#8217;s Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (Xbox 360\/PS3) is, reportedly, execrable, and Gearfuse.com calls it &#8220;the most mediocre game ever.&#8221; But this promised DLC (downloadable content) pack, letting you play as Sarah Palin or Barack Obama, has got to be the chilly-most-sweet thing ever for the next two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8031,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/8031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}