{"id":4592,"date":"2005-07-01T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4592.html"},"modified":"2005-07-01T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T16:16:10","slug":"they-must-have-gone-off-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/they-must-have-gone-off-message\/","title":{"rendered":"They must have gone off message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/06\/20050628-7.html\">speech<\/a> about Iraq the other night, the president touted a new website created by the Pentagon: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americasupportsyou.mil\/\">AmericaSupportsYou.mil<\/a>. The next day, Scott McClellan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/06\/20050629-4.html\">bragged<\/a> about the fact that the website was generating more than 10,000 hits per second after Bush&#8217;s speech.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, many of those hits were from visitors who also wanted to send a message thanking the troops. Indeed, since the site was unveiled earlier this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dod.mil\/americasupportsyou\/support\/messages\/\">more than 26,000 Americans<\/a> have left messages, all of them offering support and encouragement to the troops, and many of them backing the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Were there any messages that supported the troops but not their mission? Yes, but we can&#8217;t read them. The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Washington Wire <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/0,,SB112018206470575041,00.html?mod=politics%5Fabove%5Fad%5Fhs\">reported<\/a> today that there were at least two notes on the site that questioned the war &#8212; which promptly disappeared shortly after being posted.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, ideas that run counter to the Bush agenda are to be deleted, edited, and\/or &#8220;fixed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his speech about Iraq the other night, the president touted a new website created by the Pentagon: AmericaSupportsYou.mil. The next day, Scott McClellan bragged about the fact that the website was generating more than 10,000 hits per second after Bush&#8217;s speech. As it turns out, many of those hits were from visitors who also [&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-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592","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=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}