{"id":2119,"date":"2004-07-14T10:17:56","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T15:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2119.html"},"modified":"2004-07-14T10:17:56","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T15:17:56","slug":"those-caricatures-must-be-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/those-caricatures-must-be-protected\/","title":{"rendered":"Those caricatures must be protected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a funny instance of a misguided press flack choosing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5430220\/\">the wrong word<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/tbogg.blogspot.com\/2004\/07\/same-difference.html\">via TBogg<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The last sign of a defeated and intellectually bankrupt party is a hate-filled strategy of <b>caricature<\/b> assassination,&#8221; said Jonathan Grella, a DeLay spokesman. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re intellectually bankrupt, but he wants to protect caricatures?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I know what he meant, but it&#8217;s amusing anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a funny instance of a misguided press flack choosing the wrong word (via TBogg). &#8220;The last sign of a defeated and intellectually bankrupt party is a hate-filled strategy of caricature assassination,&#8221; said Jonathan Grella, a DeLay spokesman. (emphasis added) We&#8217;re intellectually bankrupt, but he wants to protect caricatures? Sure, I know what he meant, [&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-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","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=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}