{"id":2784,"date":"2004-10-15T15:07:45","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T20:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2784.html"},"modified":"2004-10-15T15:07:45","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T20:07:45","slug":"bushs-crowd-control-irony-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bushs-crowd-control-irony-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s Crowd Control &#8212; irony edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/politics\/debatereferee\/debate_1008.html\">last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think whoever is the president must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush event, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bend.com\/news\/ar_view^3Far_id^3D18712.htm\">yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush taught three Oregon schoolteachers a new lesson in irony &#8212; or tragedy &#8212; Thursday night when his campaign removed them from a Bush speech and threatened them with arrest simply for wearing t-shirts that said \u201cProtect Our Civil Liberties,\u201d the Democratic Party of Oregon reported.<\/p>\n<p>The women were ticketed to the event, admitted into the event, and were then approached by event officials before the president&#8217;s speech. They were asked to leave and to turn over their tickets &#8212; two of the three tickets were seized, but the third was saved when one of the teachers put it underneath an article of clothing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. Constitution was not available on site for comment, but expressed in a written statement support for &#8216;the freedom of speech&#8217; and &#8216;of the press&#8217; among other civil liberties,&#8221; a Democratic news release said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush, last week: &#8220;I think whoever is the president must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.&#8221; Bush event, yesterday: President Bush taught three Oregon schoolteachers a new lesson in irony &#8212; or tragedy &#8212; Thursday night when his campaign removed them from a Bush speech and threatened them with arrest simply [&hellip;]<\/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-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","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=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}