{"id":3485,"date":"2005-02-04T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3485.html"},"modified":"2005-02-04T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T14:59:16","slug":"it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-anyone-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-anyone-is\/","title":{"rendered":"It depends on what the meaning of ‘anyone’ is"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush, in the State of the Union<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I will work with members of Congress to find the most effective combination of reforms. I will listen to anyone who has a good idea to offer…. [W]e have to move ahead with courage and honesty, because our children’s retirement security is more important than partisan politics.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bush’s event on Social Security<\/a>, less than 24 hours later:<\/p>\n

Not everyone was welcome, apparently, at President Bush’s speech in North Dakota yesterday.<\/p>\n

The Fargo Forum reported that a city commissioner, a liberal radio producer, a deputy Democratic campaign manager and a number of university professors were among more than 40 area residents who were barred from attending the Bush event. Their names were on a list supplied to workers at two ticket distribution sites.<\/p>\n

The “Bush blacklist” is “frightening,” Tom Athans, chief executive of Democracy Radio, said after learning that a producer for the liberal “Ed Schultz Show” was among those barred. “To blacklist a local citizen because he produces a radio program at odds with the political agenda of the White House is dangerous for democracy.”<\/p>\n

City Commissioner Linda Coates, whose husband was also on the list, told the newspaper that the list “is very revealing as to what this administration is all about.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe Bush assumed these North Dakotans didn’t have any good ideas to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush, in the State of the Union: “I will work with members of Congress to find the most effective combination of reforms. I will listen to anyone who has a good idea to offer…. [W]e have to move ahead with courage and honesty, because our children’s retirement security is more important than partisan politics.” Bush’s […]<\/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-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}