{"id":5463,"date":"2005-10-06T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T16:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2005-10-06T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T16:59:54","slug":"fool-us-four-times-shame-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fool-us-four-times-shame-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Fool us four times, shame on…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Oct. 6, 2004, just a month before the presidential election, the White House announced that Bush would deliver a “major speech” about the war in Iraq. Reporters dutifully showed up, all the networks broadcast it live to a national television audience, and Americans heard … nothing new<\/a>. It was just another pep rally in which Bush attacked John Kerry for the better part of an hour. The networks, as a practical matter, ran one-hour, uninterrupted commercials for the Bush campaign.<\/p>\n

Two weeks later, on Oct. 18, it happened again. Bush’s aides billed an event in New Jersey as a “major speech” on terrorism. The networks, once again, showed up, and the president, once again, gave his standard stump speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It worked so well during the campaign it seems to have become a standard practice. In June, Bush delivered another speech<\/a> on Iraq. Sticking to the game plan, the White House told reporters<\/a> it would be — you guessed it — a “major speech.” It wasn’t<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the Bush gang keeps going to the same well. Yesterday, Scott McClellan said<\/a> today’s presidential remarks will be “a significant speech on the war on terrorism.” Aside from some unsubstantiated claims<\/a> about foiling alleged al Queda plots, viewers learned that Bush believes<\/a> Iraq is central to the war on terror and Bush is commited to “complete victory.”<\/p>\n

How many more times do you suppose the White House will try to get away with the same trick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Oct. 6, 2004, just a month before the presidential election, the White House announced that Bush would deliver a “major speech” about the war in Iraq. Reporters dutifully showed up, all the networks broadcast it live to a national television audience, and Americans heard … nothing new. It was just another pep rally in […]<\/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-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","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=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}