{"id":8528,"date":"2006-09-21T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8528.html"},"modified":"2006-09-21T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T18:25:52","slug":"even-if-this-were-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/even-if-this-were-true\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Even if this were true&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like to pick on PowerLine, a leading far-right blog, but as Jason Zengerle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/theplank?pid=39942\">noted<\/a>, this line from a <a href=\"http:\/\/powerlineblog.com\/archives\/015328.php\">post<\/a> today is too amusing to ignore.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We stand accused of being over-the-top partisans who worship President Bush as a visionary. Even if this were true&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please. In July, PowerLine ran <a href=\"http:\/\/powerlineblog.com\/archives\/011183.php#011183\">an item<\/a> that called Bush &#8220;a man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius&#8230;. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A month later, after an audience with the president in the Oval Office, PowerLine <a href=\"http:\/\/powerlineblog.com\/archives\/015081.php\">described<\/a> Bush as someone who is &#8220;by turns instructive, persuasive, and funny. His persona is very much that of the big brother&#8230;. [H]e clearly derives real joy from the opportunity to serve as President and to participate in the great pageant of American history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now PowerLine isn&#8217;t sure if it&#8217;s authored by &#8220;over-the-top partisans who worship President Bush as a visionary&#8221;? What more, pray tell, would it take?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like to pick on PowerLine, a leading far-right blog, but as Jason Zengerle noted, this line from a post today is too amusing to ignore. &#8220;We stand accused of being over-the-top partisans who worship President Bush as a visionary. Even if this were true&#8230;&#8221; Please. In July, PowerLine ran an item that called [&hellip;]<\/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-8528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528","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=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}