{"id":543,"date":"2003-08-21T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/543.html"},"modified":"2003-08-21T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2003-08-21T21:28:10","slug":"aint-that-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/aint-that-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t that the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2003_08_17.html#000978\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>, last night MSNBC loudmouth Joe Scarborough was trying to criticize Joe Conason &#8212; whose new book you should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312315600\/thecarpetbagg-20?creative=125581&#038;camp=2321&#038;link_code=as1\">definitely pick up<\/a> &#8212; but I think he missed his target.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough exlpained, &#8220;Conason said, quote, &#8216;I just want people to pay attention and ask questions and not accept what I call conventional idiocy on TV and radio.&#8217; Conventional idiocy? So why is it that more people listen to Rush Limbaugh than anybody else in radio history? All I\u2019ve got to say is, there are a lot of idiots out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Truer words were never spoken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I learned from Tom Tomorrow, last night MSNBC loudmouth Joe Scarborough was trying to criticize Joe Conason &#8212; whose new book you should definitely pick up &#8212; but I think he missed his target. Scarborough exlpained, &#8220;Conason said, quote, &#8216;I just want people to pay attention and ask questions and not accept what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}