{"id":4795,"date":"2005-07-24T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T12:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2005-07-24T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T12:42:16","slug":"sunday-discussion-group-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sunday-discussion-group-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Discussion Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it, the White House scandal over the Bush gang&#8217;s leaking the identity of an undercover CIA agent needs a good name. I&#8217;ve been calling it the &#8220;Plame Game&#8221; for a long while, but only because I like bad puns.<\/p>\n<p>All the great political scandals have simple, straightforward, easy-to-remember names. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Watergate\">Watergate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran-Contra\">Iran-Contra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teapot_Dome\">Teapot Dome<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XYZ_Affair\">XYZ Affair<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abscam\">Abscam<\/a>, and so on. What should we call this one?<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, I&#8217;m looking for a name that can be easily embraced by the mainstream, as the names with previous scandals were. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleftcoaster.com\/archives\/004870.php\">Treasongate<\/a>&#8221; has been making the rounds, and it&#8217;s not bad, but it&#8217;s hard to imagine it getting picked up by everyone. The Daily Show used &#8220;Rove Actually&#8221; the other day, as a take off of the movie Love Actually, but that&#8217;s a little clunky for everyday use.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s it going to be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it, the White House scandal over the Bush gang&#8217;s leaking the identity of an undercover CIA agent needs a good name. I&#8217;ve been calling it the &#8220;Plame Game&#8221; for a long while, but only because I like bad puns. All the great political scandals have simple, straightforward, easy-to-remember names. Watergate, Iran-Contra, Teapot Dome, [&hellip;]<\/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-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","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=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}