{"id":845,"date":"2003-11-13T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/845.html"},"modified":"2003-11-13T13:21:56","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T18:21:56","slug":"frist-memo-about-whine-a-thon-speaks-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/frist-memo-about-whine-a-thon-speaks-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Frist memo about whine-a-thon speaks volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case there was any doubt about the real purpose of the Senate&#8217;s 30-hour &#8220;debate&#8221; over Bush&#8217;s judicial nominees, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/story.asp?id=139\">a memo sent from for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist&#8217;s office<\/a> helps prove this stunt is one big public relations scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The memo, sent by Frist staffer Manuel Miranda, explained to other staffers of Republican Senators the importance of gathering on time for a well-orchestrated walk to the Senate chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The memo explained, &#8220;Fox News Channel is really excited about this marathon and Brit Hume at 6 would love to open with all our 51 senators walking onto the floor &#8212; the producer wants to know will we walk in exactly at 6:02 when the show starts so they get it live to open Brit Hume&#8217;s show? Or if not, can we give them an exact time for the walk-in start?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t about filing judicial vacancies with qualified judges; this is about playing to the desires of Fox News Channel&#8217;s producers and viewers. How very sad.<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, this little whine-a-thon scheme is costing the American public <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/49_53\/news\/3603-1.html\">over $100,000<\/a>. Remind me again which is the party of fiscal responsibility?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case there was any doubt about the real purpose of the Senate&#8217;s 30-hour &#8220;debate&#8221; over Bush&#8217;s judicial nominees, a memo sent from for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist&#8217;s office helps prove this stunt is one big public relations scheme. The memo, sent by Frist staffer Manuel Miranda, explained to other staffers of Republican Senators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}