{"id":2219,"date":"2004-07-29T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2219.html"},"modified":"2004-07-29T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T17:14:14","slug":"the-aps-unflattering-language-for-dean-graham-gephardt-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-aps-unflattering-language-for-dean-graham-gephardt-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"The AP&#8217;s unflattering language for Dean, Graham, Gephardt, et al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed yesterday that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A20101-2004Jul28.html\">AP carried a feed<\/a> that used some pretty unforgiving language to describe John Kerry&#8217;s former rivals for the Democratic nomination. The headline read, &#8220;Losers fall in line behind party&#8217;s choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the lede:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Loser by loser, the candidates who wanted to be where John Kerry is now paraded across the stage for the last rites of defeat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad enough to give it your best shot and come up short, but does the AP really have to call these guys &#8220;losers&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed yesterday that the AP carried a feed that used some pretty unforgiving language to describe John Kerry&#8217;s former rivals for the Democratic nomination. The headline read, &#8220;Losers fall in line behind party&#8217;s choice.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the lede: Loser by loser, the candidates who wanted to be where John Kerry is now paraded across the [&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-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","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=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}