{"id":8184,"date":"2006-08-11T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8184.html"},"modified":"2006-08-11T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T19:40:07","slug":"a-bad-apple-in-the-rncs-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-bad-apple-in-the-rncs-office\/","title":{"rendered":"A ‘bad apple’ in the RNC’s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

To update a post<\/a> from this morning, you’ll be pleased to know that a) Dems were apoplectic about the RNC’s Giuliani fundraising letter<\/a> that sought to capitalize on the terrorist plot; and b) the RNC has found a scapegoat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The RNC blamed a low-level staffer for distributing the fundraising appeal, which the party said had been scheduled for release before news of the plot broke.<\/p>\n

“Once the RNC learned of this error we ceased distribution of the e-mail,” said Tracey Schmitt, a party spokeswoman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure what the RNC means when it says the party “ceased distribution” of the letter — once an email is sent to a list, it’s sent to the list — but the fact that Republican officials are capable of feeling some<\/i> shame is a real breakthrough. (I half expected Schmitt to say, “Of course we’re using terrorism as a fundraising gimmick; what are you going to do about it?”) Maybe now the RNC will do the classy thing and donate the money it received yesterday from the Giuliani letter to a 9\/11-related charity, as an acknowledgment of how inappropriate the appeal was.<\/p>\n

As for blaming the “low-level staffer” for the incident, this is far more in line with what we’ve come to expect from the RNC. Remember in 2000, when then-Gov. Bush delivered a convention speech that promised to usher in “era of responsibility<\/a>,” when people will stop passing on problems to others?<\/p>\n

It sounded good at the time. Some people probably imagined a political system in which bosses would take responsibility for mistakes, instead of blaming the closest available “low-level staffer.” Little did we know at the time this wouldn’t apply at the RNC, or FEMA, or the CIA, or Abu Ghraib….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To update a post from this morning, you’ll be pleased to know that a) Dems were apoplectic about the RNC’s Giuliani fundraising letter that sought to capitalize on the terrorist plot; and b) the RNC has found a scapegoat. The RNC blamed a low-level staffer for distributing the fundraising appeal, which the party said had […]<\/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-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","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=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}