{"id":2255,"date":"2004-08-04T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2255.html"},"modified":"2004-08-04T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T14:48:22","slug":"thats-quite-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/thats-quite-a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s quite a gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A37821-2004Aug3_2.html\">This<\/a> probably won&#8217;t help those conspiracy theories about Bush and the House of Saud:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine what documentary filmmaker Michael Moore could have done with this: Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s de facto leader, last year gave President Bush, his family and top aides $128,000 worth of fine jewelry, according to the State Department&#8217;s annual list of foreign leaders&#8217; gifts to top U.S. officials. Unclear if that helped take the edge off that bit of friction over allegations by some that the Saudis aren&#8217;t pulling their weight in the war on terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This probably won&#8217;t help those conspiracy theories about Bush and the House of Saud: Imagine what documentary filmmaker Michael Moore could have done with this: Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s de facto leader, last year gave President Bush, his family and top aides $128,000 worth of fine jewelry, according to the State Department&#8217;s annual list [&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-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","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=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}