{"id":2895,"date":"2004-10-29T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T18:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2895.html"},"modified":"2004-10-29T13:09:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T18:09:05","slug":"the-rnc-hits-rock-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-rnc-hits-rock-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"The RNC hits rock bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, the Republican National Committee sent out a mailing insisting that &#8220;liberals&#8221; are planning to &#8220;ban&#8221; the Bible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/002606.html\">I said<\/a> at the time it was &#8220;the most disturbing piece of direct mail I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221; I was wrong &#8212; the RNC has stooped even lower.<\/p>\n<p>A writer called The Blue Lemur, whom I don&#8217;t know, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluelemur.com\/index.php?p=377\">posted images<\/a> of what appears to be the latest RNC mailing. You&#8217;ll have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluelemur.com\/index.php?p=377\">take a look for yourself<\/a> to believe it.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t vouch for this website, but the scanned image appears to show the exact same RNC return address label that the &#8220;ban the Bible&#8221; ad had, and the party eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/24\/politics\/campaign\/24bible.html\">took full credit<\/a> for that one.<\/p>\n<p>If the RNC really did send this out, and I have every reason to believe that it did, the party has reached a level of desperation that I never thought possible. By exploiting 9\/11 in such a crass and disturbing way, I suspect the RNC will actually generate a backlash that will help Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, though I should obviously know better, I&#8217;m nevertheless stunned by the RNC&#8217;s complete abandonment of any shred of decency. These people are low and getting lower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, the Republican National Committee sent out a mailing insisting that &#8220;liberals&#8221; are planning to &#8220;ban&#8221; the Bible. I said at the time it was &#8220;the most disturbing piece of direct mail I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221; I was wrong &#8212; the RNC has stooped even lower. A writer called The Blue Lemur, whom 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-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","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=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}