{"id":4753,"date":"2005-07-20T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T14:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4753.html"},"modified":"2005-07-20T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T14:10:29","slug":"mission-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mission-accomplished\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"

The strategy wasn’t exactly subtle. Karl Rove’s role in a massive White House scandal was dominating political discussion in Washington and causing real concern<\/a> with the public. We weren’t supposed to see a Supreme Court nominee until next week, or perhaps even early August, but, as one Republican strategist put it, an earlier announcement “helps take Rove off the front pages for a week<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

So, did it work? Yep.<\/p>\n

After substantive articles and coverage of Rove’s scandal in the major dailies in each of the last nine or so days, here’s the rundown from today’s papers:<\/p>\n

* Washington Post articles about Rove’s scandal — 0<\/p>\n

* New York Times articles about Rove’s scandal — 0<\/p>\n

* Los Angeles Times articles about Rove’s scandal — 0<\/p>\n

* Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Boston Globe articles about Rove’s scandal — 0<\/p>\n

* USA Today articles about Rove’s scandal — 1<\/a><\/p>\n

We were getting close to a feeding frenzy there, and the results of that ABC News poll<\/a> looked to reinforce beliefs that this is a scandal that deserves the attention. <\/p>\n

Looks like the sharks have been successfully distracted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The strategy wasn’t exactly subtle. Karl Rove’s role in a massive White House scandal was dominating political discussion in Washington and causing real concern with the public. We weren’t supposed to see a Supreme Court nominee until next week, or perhaps even early August, but, as one Republican strategist put it, an earlier announcement “helps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","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=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}