{"id":2000,"date":"2004-06-24T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2000.html"},"modified":"2004-06-24T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T16:15:57","slug":"ron-reagan-jr-still-not-fond-of-the-current-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/ron-reagan-jr-still-not-fond-of-the-current-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Reagan Jr. still not fond of the current administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Reagan, be sure to keep an eye out for this week&#8217;s &#8220;Questions for&#8230;&#8221; column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. It&#8217;s going to feature an interview with Ron Reagan Jr. in which he, again, expresses his displeasure with the current occupants of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2003\/04\/14\/ron_reagan\/\">less-than-subtle criticisms<\/a> of Bush at his father&#8217;s funeral, Ron takes aim at Cheney.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: &#8220;How did your mother feel about being ushered to her seat by President Bush?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>RR: &#8220;Well, he did a better job than Dick Cheney did when he came to the rotunda. I felt so bad. Cheney brought my mother up to the casket, so she could pay her respects. She is in her 80&#8217;s, and she has glaucoma and has trouble seeing. There were steps, and he left her there. He just stood there, letting her flounder. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s a mindful human being. That&#8217;s probably the nicest way I can put it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0406\/23\/lkl.00.html\">told Larry King<\/a> last night, &#8220;We lied our way into the war [in Iraq].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This guy really doesn&#8217;t hold back. Maybe we should get <i>him<\/i> to speak at the DNC this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Reagan, be sure to keep an eye out for this week&#8217;s &#8220;Questions for&#8230;&#8221; column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. It&#8217;s going to feature an interview with Ron Reagan Jr. in which he, again, expresses his displeasure with the current occupants of the White House. Fresh off his less-than-subtle criticisms of Bush [&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-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","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=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}