{"id":2258,"date":"2004-08-04T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2258.html"},"modified":"2004-08-04T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T16:28:39","slug":"bush-campaign-blog-chooses-the-wrong-article-to-highlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-campaign-blog-chooses-the-wrong-article-to-highlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush campaign blog chooses the wrong article to highlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bush’s campaign’s blog may end up regretting this one.<\/p>\n

The conservative National Review ran an item<\/a> yesterday mocking firefighters who have expressed support for the Kerry campaign. That’s typical for the National Review’s style and no one was particularly surprised.<\/p>\n

But it’s a little more problematic when the Bush campaign highlights the article on the president’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For example, I don’t imagine the Bush gang really wants to be associated with remarks like this:<\/p>\n

“Generally speaking, the likelihood that a firefighter will vote for John Kerry is inversely proportional to the number of fires he has actually fought. Witness all those T-shirted “Fire Fighters for Kerry” you saw at the convention. A little soft around the middle some of them were, weren’t they? Do you think some of them could haul a hose pack up 50 flights of stairs? I’m not betting on it. I’m guessing the only fires many of them have seen lately were at IAFF barbecues.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even worse, the Bush campaign cited this nonsense as an example of “the heart and soul of America” speaking out.<\/p>\n

Call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure “the heart and soul of America” doesn’t much care for making fun of firefighters who put their lives on the line for their communities.<\/p>\n

Update<\/i>: Speaking of the Bush blog, The Onion has a hilarious item<\/a> this week about the CIA asking Bush to discontinue his site. (Thanks Chip.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bush’s campaign’s blog may end up regretting this one. The conservative National Review ran an item yesterday mocking firefighters who have expressed support for the Kerry campaign. That’s typical for the National Review’s style and no one was particularly surprised. But it’s a little more problematic when the Bush campaign highlights the article on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","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=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}