{"id":8443,"date":"2006-09-12T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8443.html"},"modified":"2006-09-12T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T13:50:01","slug":"deconstructing-dubya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/deconstructing-dubya\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing Dubya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-reaction.blogspot.com\/\">Michael J.W. Stickings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had intended last night to write some stirring response to the president&#8217;s 9\/11 speech. But it was all so predictable, so divisive, so self-serving that, upon reflection, I just couldn&#8217;t see the point. What did he say that we hadn&#8217;t heard before, the eternal recurrence of the same old nonsense? What could I have said that I and many others, including the proprietor of this blog, hadn&#8217;t said before, over and over again, often to the point of exhaustion and frustration? In the end, I preferred to welcome back Stewart and Colbert from their post-Emmy break. (Where would we without them to keep us laughing?) The former&#8217;s Bush-on-Osama montage, which highlighted the president&#8217;s web of contradiction and untruth, was particularly hilarious (in that typically disturbing sort of way).<\/p>\n<p>Some of my response to Bush will come in the posts I write here today, so stay tuned, but allow me now, as we get started, to send you over to visit my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardcopeland.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/deciphering-dubyas-speech-line-by-line.html\">Edward Copeland<\/a>, who has deciphered Bush&#8217;s speech line by misleading line. His analysis, it seems to me, uncovers what Bush was <em>really<\/em> saying last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings I had intended last night to write some stirring response to the president&#8217;s 9\/11 speech. But it was all so predictable, so divisive, so self-serving that, upon reflection, I just couldn&#8217;t see the point. What did he say that we hadn&#8217;t heard before, the eternal recurrence of the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}