Just a couple of items to mention briefly this morning….<\/p>\n
* My guest stint at Washington Monthly, which I enjoyed thoroughly, ended yesterday. Many thanks to Kevin Drum for the opportunity. This week, I’m going back to a relatively normal schedule writing here and co-editing the Daou Report.<\/p>\n
* There were a couple of items I wrote for WM over the weekend that I’m going to post here this morning because I think they may be of interest and I wanted to give my regular commenters a chance to weigh in. If you already saw them over at WM, sorry for the redundancy. I’ll have plenty of fresh content throughout the day.<\/p>\n
* I haven’t forgotten about the Mendacity Madness contest we started working on<\/a> 10 days ago. I had hoped to figure out the logistics last week, but didn’t have the time. So, let’s have one more week of nominations while I And now, back to the news….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just a couple of items to mention briefly this morning…. * My guest stint at Washington Monthly, which I enjoyed thoroughly, ended yesterday. Many thanks to Kevin Drum for the opportunity. This week, I’m going back to a relatively normal schedule writing here and co-editing the Daou Report. * There were a couple of items […]<\/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-7656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656","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=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}start<\/strike> finish up how the contest is going to work. (If you have some favorite Bush lies that haven’t already been nominated, feel free to add them here, there<\/a>, or send them in via email.)<\/p>\n