{"id":7329,"date":"2006-05-05T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2006-05-05T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T16:28:17","slug":"i-think-hes-lost-al-neuharth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-think-hes-lost-al-neuharth\/","title":{"rendered":"I think he&#8217;s lost Al Neuharth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today founder [tag]Al Neuharth[\/tag], generally known for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002463304\">Republican views<\/a>, seems to have officially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/columnist\/neuharth\/2006-05-04-neuharth_x.htm\">given up on the president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How low can [tag]Bush[\/tag]&#8217;s approval rating go? My hunch is it&#8217;s at or near the bottom. That 34% represents mostly unshakeable far-right wingers. Like Bush, Vice President Cheney and company, they are in denial. As were the 24% in the polls who still approved of President Richard Nixon before he resigned in disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to the 37% who have switched from pro-Bush to anti-Bush? They finally realized they were [tag]suckered[\/tag] by Bush and his buddies back then about Saddam Hussein&#8217;s alleged weapons of mass destruction, his tie to terrorists and his threat to the USA.<\/p>\n<p>President Abraham Lincoln was right when he said: &#8220;You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you can&#8217;t fool all of the people all of the time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, Al, tell us how you really feel&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today founder [tag]Al Neuharth[\/tag], generally known for his Republican views, seems to have officially given up on the president. How low can [tag]Bush[\/tag]&#8217;s approval rating go? My hunch is it&#8217;s at or near the bottom. That 34% represents mostly unshakeable far-right wingers. Like Bush, Vice President Cheney and company, they are in denial. As [&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-7329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329","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=7329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}