{"id":1993,"date":"2004-06-23T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1993.html"},"modified":"2004-06-23T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T18:15:16","slug":"the-full-of-spin-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-full-of-spin-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"The full-of-spin zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Progress Report had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&#038;b=6228\">a fun catch<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>Bill O&#8217;Reilly, last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I did not refer to [Al Franken] as Joseph Goebbels; that was Michael Moore.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bill O&#8217;Reilly, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200406140007\">12 days ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda for the Nazi regime and whose very famous quote was, &#8216;If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth&#8217;&#8230;And that&#8217;s what Stuart Smalley [O&#8217;Reilly refers to Al Franken as Stuart Smalley, Franken&#8217;s played on Saturday Night Live], and Michael Moore and all of these guys do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the irony &#8212; lying about accusing Franken of lying &#8212; is lost on O&#8217;Reilly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progress Report had a fun catch today. Bill O&#8217;Reilly, last night: &#8220;I did not refer to [Al Franken] as Joseph Goebbels; that was Michael Moore.&#8221; Bill O&#8217;Reilly, 12 days ago: &#8220;Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda for the Nazi regime and whose very famous quote was, &#8216;If you tell a lie long enough, [&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-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","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=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}