{"id":6508,"date":"2006-02-02T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T15:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2006-02-02T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T15:10:35","slug":"theyre-not-opposites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/theyre-not-opposites\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re not opposites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually reserve my media criticism for the <a href=\"http:\/\/daoureport.salon.com\/synopsis.aspx?synopsisId=48688716-7492-4b1f-a25f-0442781c6509\">&#8220;Single Storyline&#8221; project<\/a> at the Daou Report, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-02-01-sheehan-charges_x.htm\">this one<\/a> was too egregious not to share.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sheehan&#8217;s T-shirt made reference to the number of soldiers killed in Iraq: &#8220;2245 Dead. How many more?&#8221; Capitol Police charged her with a misdemeanor for violating the District of Columbia&#8217;s code against unlawful or disruptive conduct on any part of the Capitol grounds, a law enforcement official said. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Young&#8217;s shirt had <b>just the opposite message<\/b>: &#8220;Support the Troops &#8212; Defending Our Freedom.&#8221; (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was in the national AP story that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;q=%22Young%27s+shirt+had+just+the+opposite+message%22&#038;btnG=Search+News\">ran in hundreds of newspapers<\/a> across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Forget whether you like Sheehan or not; the AP has to know better than to frame the debate this way. Asking how many more U.S. troops are going to die in Iraq is not &#8220;the opposite&#8221; of supporting the troops. For most people, they&#8217;re one in the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually reserve my media criticism for the &#8220;Single Storyline&#8221; project at the Daou Report, but this one was too egregious not to share. Sheehan&#8217;s T-shirt made reference to the number of soldiers killed in Iraq: &#8220;2245 Dead. How many more?&#8221; Capitol Police charged her with a misdemeanor for violating the District of Columbia&#8217;s code [&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-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","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=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}