{"id":1300,"date":"2004-02-23T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T20:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1300.html"},"modified":"2004-02-23T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T20:39:32","slug":"rod-paige-calls-nea-a-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/rod-paige-calls-nea-a-terrorist-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Paige calls NEA a &#8216;terrorist organization&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll have more on this tomorrow, but if you haven&#8217;t heard already, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A64755-2004Feb23.html\">this story<\/a> will likely drive Rod Page from his job.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation&#8217;s largest teachers union a &#8220;terrorist organization&#8221; during a private White House meeting with governors on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic and Republican governors confirmed Paige&#8217;s remarks about the National Education Association. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These were the words, &#8216;The NEA is a terrorist organization,'&#8221; said Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was making a joke, probably not a very good one,&#8221; said Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today might be a good day to update your resume, Rod, in case you haven&#8217;t done so lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll have more on this tomorrow, but if you haven&#8217;t heard already, this story will likely drive Rod Page from his job. Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation&#8217;s largest teachers union a &#8220;terrorist organization&#8221; during a private White House meeting with governors on Monday. Democratic and Republican governors confirmed Paige&#8217;s remarks about the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","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=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}