{"id":2655,"date":"2004-09-30T12:25:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2655.html"},"modified":"2004-09-30T12:25:32","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:25:32","slug":"its-equally-impressive-that-dick-cheney-wasnt-there-to-hold-his-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/its-equally-impressive-that-dick-cheney-wasnt-there-to-hold-his-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s equally impressive that Dick Cheney wasn&#8217;t there to hold his hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you weren&#8217;t absolutely convinced that Fox News&#8217; Bill O&#8217;Reilly is a vapid hack masquerading as a &#8220;journalist,&#8221; consider this quote (<a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/impressive.html\">via Atrios<\/a> and Jon Stewart) from O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,133795,00.html\">Tuesday broadcast<\/a>, before his interview with Bush was aired.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The president did not receive the questions in advance, nor were there any restrictions on what I could ask. Again, that&#8217;s impressive. Even if you don&#8217;t support Mr. Bush, you have to admire his willingness to discuss the issues in a venue like this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what it&#8217;s come to. The president is capable of doing an interview with a conservative blowhard on a conservative network without getting the questions in advance. This, coupled by his desire to tell people about his presidency on television, is now considered worthy of praise.<\/p>\n<p>The mind reels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you weren&#8217;t absolutely convinced that Fox News&#8217; Bill O&#8217;Reilly is a vapid hack masquerading as a &#8220;journalist,&#8221; consider this quote (via Atrios and Jon Stewart) from O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Tuesday broadcast, before his interview with Bush was aired. &#8220;The president did not receive the questions in advance, nor were there any restrictions on what I [&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-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}