{"id":3648,"date":"2005-03-02T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3648.html"},"modified":"2005-03-02T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T16:00:44","slug":"if-a-congressman-calls-for-a-nuclear-attack-and-only-blogs-notice-does-it-really-make-a-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/if-a-congressman-calls-for-a-nuclear-attack-and-only-blogs-notice-does-it-really-make-a-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"If a congressman calls for a nuclear attack, and only blogs notice, does it really make a sound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number of times Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/003628.html\">an unprovoked nuclear attack on Syria<\/a>: 2<\/p>\n<p>Number of daily newspaper articles to report the remark: 0<\/p>\n<p>Number of newspaper editorials and op-eds to comment on the remark: 0<\/p>\n<p>Number of reports on Johnson&#8217;s comments on CNN: 1<\/p>\n<p>Number of combined reports on Johnson&#8217;s comments on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, and MSNBC: 0<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I think it&#8217;s safe to say the guy is going to get away with this. Let this be a lesson to all of us: Republican members of Congress can, in public, call for nuclear strikes in the Middle East and the national media will consider it mundane and uninteresting. Good to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of times Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) recommended an unprovoked nuclear attack on Syria: 2 Number of daily newspaper articles to report the remark: 0 Number of newspaper editorials and op-eds to comment on the remark: 0 Number of reports on Johnson&#8217;s comments on CNN: 1 Number of combined reports on Johnson&#8217;s comments on ABC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}