{"id":1412,"date":"2004-03-16T12:53:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1412.html"},"modified":"2004-03-16T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T17:53:44","slug":"yeah-backing-up-accusations-with-facts-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/yeah-backing-up-accusations-with-facts-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, backing up accusations with facts is important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/03\/20040316-2.html\">Now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re going to make an accusation in the course of a presidential campaign, you ought to back it up with facts,&#8221; Bush told reporters in the Oval Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/politics2000\/feature\/2000\/05\/17\/bush\/index.html\">Then<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On May 3, 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush alleged that Vice President Al Gore was once a member of the National Rifle Association. The Gore camp said it could find no evidence that Bush&#8217;s claim was true, and NRA spokesman Bill Powers said that he, too, could find no record of Gore&#8217;s membership in the organization&#8217;s microfiche, but the next day Bush repeated the charge. Pressed by reporters as to how he could make such a claim, Bush said, &#8220;He might have been a member, let&#8217;s put it that way.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>When asked who told him about Gore&#8217;s &#8220;membership,&#8221; Bush said, &#8220;a little birdie.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now: &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to make an accusation in the course of a presidential campaign, you ought to back it up with facts,&#8221; Bush told reporters in the Oval Office. Then: On May 3, 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush alleged that Vice President Al Gore was once a member of the National Rifle Association. [&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-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}