{"id":7695,"date":"2006-06-15T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2006-06-15T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T16:59:23","slug":"white-house-press-secretary-lashes-out-at-jimmy-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/white-house-press-secretary-lashes-out-at-jimmy-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"White House press secretary lashes out at Jimmy Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"

[tag]White House[\/tag] [tag]Press Secretary[\/tag] [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag] appeared on [tag]Don Imus[\/tag]’ show today, and the two apparently enjoyed themselves by attacking<\/a> former President [tag]Jimmy Carter[\/tag]. One of Snow’s comments, in particular, stood out.<\/p>\n

Whereas Bush “snuck off” to visit Iraq, Carter “used to sneak off and fish on the weekends.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, for a Bushie to criticize anyone for taking in some leisure activities on a weekend is rich. This president has taken more time off<\/a> than any in American history. Most of the time, it’s to go clear brush.<\/p>\n

Second, as Nico mentioned<\/a>, “Apparently it’s now acceptable for a sitting White House Press Secretary to publicly level ad hominem attacks against a [tag]former[\/tag] [tag]President[\/tag] of the United States.” It’s a classy bunch.<\/p>\n

And third, I must have missed the memo, but since when did the right get together and decide it was time to take down Jimmy Carter? Last month, Move America Forward launched a major ad campaign<\/a> aimed at asking Congress to “censure” Carter. This month, Snow is going after him on the airwaves.<\/p>\n

Has Carter somehow been deemed a threat to the [tag]GOP[\/tag] machine? Why all the vitriol?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[tag]White House[\/tag] [tag]Press Secretary[\/tag] [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag] appeared on [tag]Don Imus[\/tag]’ show today, and the two apparently enjoyed themselves by attacking former President [tag]Jimmy Carter[\/tag]. One of Snow’s comments, in particular, stood out. Whereas Bush “snuck off” to visit Iraq, Carter “used to sneak off and fish on the weekends.” First, for a Bushie to criticize […]<\/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-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695","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=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}