{"id":8637,"date":"2006-10-02T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T21:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8637.html"},"modified":"2006-10-02T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T21:18:32","slug":"mini-report-foley-free-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mini-report-foley-free-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-report &#8212; Foley-free edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see, seven stand-alone posts in one day on the Foley scandal. How about some other, non-Foley stories that I didn&#8217;t get to today?<\/p>\n<p>* Wal-Mart: always awful business practices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/2006\/10\/post_1538.html#011975\">Always<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Markos Moulitsas (you know, Kos) makes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/2006\/10\/02\/markos-moulitsas\/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat\/\">compelling argument<\/a> for &#8220;The Case for the Libertarian Democrat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;m amazed reporters are <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200610020001\">still getting the story wrong<\/a> about Democrats taking Abramoff money. (They didn&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;m even more amazed Bill O&#8217;Reilly <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/browse\/200609290005\">suggested<\/a>, with a straight face, that &#8220;religious fundamentalists&#8221; have &#8220;no influence&#8221; on politicians and the media.<\/p>\n<p>* Ned Lamont has a good new ad called, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydd.com\/story\/2006\/10\/2\/165016\/719\">Message<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;m not positive, but Chris Mooney, whose great book is now out in paperback, sounds <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/intersection\/2006\/09\/farewell_september_catch_you_i.php\">almost as busy<\/a> as me.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n* As far as Sebastian Mallaby is concerned, &#8220;Because Democrats disagree with my ideas, <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/why_he_gets_pai.html\">they are the party of no ideas<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* John Tester shows how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discourse.net\/archives\/2006\/10\/no_fear.html\">oppose the Patriot Act with pride<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* The Christian Coalition of America has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.org\/content.cfm?id=360\">a new president<\/a>. Political world responds: &#8220;The Christian what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* And in Georgia, the wacky state Board of Education is holding a public hearing on whether to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/metro\/gwinnett\/stories\/2006\/10\/01\/1002harry.html\">remove the Harry Potter series<\/a> from local public school libraries.<\/p>\n<p>If none of these particular items are of interest, consider this an end-of-the-day open thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see, seven stand-alone posts in one day on the Foley scandal. How about some other, non-Foley stories that I didn&#8217;t get to today? * Wal-Mart: always awful business practices. Always. * Markos Moulitsas (you know, Kos) makes a compelling argument for &#8220;The Case for the Libertarian Democrat.&#8221; * I&#8217;m amazed reporters are still getting [&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-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","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=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}