{"id":1496,"date":"2004-03-31T10:40:46","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T15:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1496.html"},"modified":"2004-03-31T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T15:40:46","slug":"bill-frists-new-found-reticence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bill-frists-new-found-reticence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Frist&#8217;s new-found reticence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number of words <a href=\"http:\/\/frist.senate.gov\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Speeches.Detail&#038;Speech_id=65\">Bill Frist used<\/a> on Friday to accuse Richard Clarke of being a self-serving, opportunistic, felonious perjurer: 2,074<\/p>\n<p>Number of words Frist has used on this matter since he admitted he hadn&#8217;t even seen Clarke&#8217;s 2002 testimony and since Clarke announced his support for broad declassification: Zero.<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t some enterprising young reporter ask Frist is he&#8217;s willing to stand by his attacks from just five days ago? Or better yet, is it fair to ask if Frist is prepared to offer Clarke an apology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of words Bill Frist used on Friday to accuse Richard Clarke of being a self-serving, opportunistic, felonious perjurer: 2,074 Number of words Frist has used on this matter since he admitted he hadn&#8217;t even seen Clarke&#8217;s 2002 testimony and since Clarke announced his support for broad declassification: Zero. Shouldn&#8217;t some enterprising young reporter ask [&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-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","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=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}