{"id":1275,"date":"2004-02-19T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1275.html"},"modified":"2004-02-19T11:01:52","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T16:01:52","slug":"proof-that-bush-doesnt-get-past-the-sports-section-of-the-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/proof-that-bush-doesnt-get-past-the-sports-section-of-the-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof that Bush doesn&#8217;t get past the sports section of the paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Bush quotes of all time was a comment about his interest in the news.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,98006,00.html\">Fox News interview<\/a> on Sept. 22, 2003, Bush explained his newspaper reading habits. &#8220;I glance at the headlines, just to get kind of a flavor,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who probably read the news themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laura Bush, however, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/06\/politics\/07LAUR-TEXT.html\">told the New York Times<\/a> that she and her husband &#8220;make their way through five national newspapers over coffee&#8221; every day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/001213.html\">leading me to suggest<\/a> that the president probably reads the sports page and little else.<\/p>\n<p>Little did I know at the time, I was on to something.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Bush was asked for his thoughts on the Alex Rodriguez trade to the Yankees.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was just as surprised as the Yankees and Boston Red Sox fans when <i>I opened my paper today<\/i>,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/mlb\/news\/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20040215&#038;content_id=637373&#038;vkey=news_mlb&#038;fext=.jsp\">Bush said<\/a> Sunday. &#8220;It looks like a big deal, and it looks like it&#8217;s going to happen. A-Rod&#8217;s a great player, and the Yanks are going to be a heck of a team with him in the infield.&#8221; [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Bush quotes of all time was a comment about his interest in the news. In a Fox News interview on Sept. 22, 2003, Bush explained his newspaper reading habits. &#8220;I glance at the headlines, just to get kind of a flavor,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I rarely read the stories, and get briefed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}