{"id":5040,"date":"2005-08-23T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5040.html"},"modified":"2005-08-23T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T16:21:49","slug":"youre-either-with-them-or-youre-against-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/youre-either-with-them-or-youre-against-them\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re either with them or you&#8217;re against them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s par for the course, but White House spin-doctor extraordinaire Trent Duffy ran yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/08\/20050822-5.html\">press gaggle<\/a> aboard Air Force One and made one of those comments that offers insight into the Bush worldview.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Is the White House concerned about the protests that are planned in Salt Lake City today?<\/p>\n<p>Duffy: The President addressed that directly. He can understand that people don&#8217;t share his view that we must win the war on terror&#8230;but he just has a different view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never mind the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5866571\/\">Bush personally said<\/a> that he doesn&#8217;t even think it&#8217;s <i>possible<\/i> to win a war on terror; as far as the White House is concerned, if you protest the president and oppose the war in Iraq, you necessarily believe that the U.S. <i>shouldn&#8217;t<\/i> win the war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>The multiple layers of mendacity and demagoguery are dizzying. That Duffy is quite a talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s par for the course, but White House spin-doctor extraordinaire Trent Duffy ran yesterday&#8217;s press gaggle aboard Air Force One and made one of those comments that offers insight into the Bush worldview. Q: Is the White House concerned about the protests that are planned in Salt Lake City today? Duffy: The President addressed that [&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-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","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=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}