{"id":1495,"date":"2004-03-31T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T15:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1495.html"},"modified":"2004-03-31T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T15:25:43","slug":"pay-careful-attention-to-the-punch-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/pay-careful-attention-to-the-punch-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay careful attention to the punch line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_03_28.php#002785\">Josh Marshall found<\/a> a terrific nugget in <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/nm\/20040330\/pl_nm\/campaign_bush_father_dc&#038;cid=615&#038;ncid=2043\">this Reuters piece<\/a>. It&#8217;s so awful, it&#8217;s hilarious.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An emotional former President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday defended his son&#8217;s Iraq war and lashed out at White House critics. <\/p>\n<p>It is &#8220;deeply offensive and contemptible&#8221; to hear &#8220;elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail&#8221; dismiss progress in Iraq since last year&#8217;s overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the elder Bush said in a speech to <i>the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual convention<\/i>. [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to make fun of the Republicans when they do such a good job of parodying themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall found a terrific nugget in this Reuters piece. It&#8217;s so awful, it&#8217;s hilarious. An emotional former President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday defended his son&#8217;s Iraq war and lashed out at White House critics. It is &#8220;deeply offensive and contemptible&#8221; to hear &#8220;elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail&#8221; dismiss progress in Iraq [&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-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","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=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}