{"id":457,"date":"2003-07-28T16:11:56","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/457.html"},"modified":"2003-07-28T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T21:11:56","slug":"you-want-to-try-that-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/you-want-to-try-that-again\/","title":{"rendered":"You want to try that again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s “Bushism” in Slate<\/a> was one of my all-time favorites. It isn’t one of the malapropisms that have become infamous with a president who has trouble matching subjects and verbs, but it’s one of those great instances when you can hear Bush struggle to end his own thought.<\/p>\n

Here’s the quote:<\/p>\n

“Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we’re by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I’m proud to report that. This isn’t a contest of who’s the most generous. I’m just telling you as an aside. We’re generous. We shouldn’t be bragging about it. But we are. We’re very generous.”<\/p>\n

I think that speaks for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s “Bushism” in Slate was one of my all-time favorites. It isn’t one of the malapropisms that have become infamous with a president who has trouble matching subjects and verbs, but it’s one of those great instances when you can hear Bush struggle to end his own thought. Here’s the quote: “Our country puts $1 […]<\/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-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}