{"id":8785,"date":"2006-10-17T15:40:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8785.html"},"modified":"2006-10-17T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T19:40:40","slug":"mr-catapult-the-propaganda-is-worried-about-us-propagandizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mr-catapult-the-propaganda-is-worried-about-us-propagandizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. ‘Catapult the Propaganda’ is worried about us ‘propagandizing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the third time, the [tag]president[\/tag] sat down with Bill [tag]O’Reilly[\/tag] yesterday, for an interview that O’Reilly fully admits<\/a> would be softball-city. This is a classic exchange<\/a> — for both of them.<\/p>\n

O’REILLY: Is one of the reasons they’ve turned against the [tag]war[\/tag] in [tag]Iraq[\/tag] is that the anti-Bush press pounds day in and day out in newspapers, on the network news, in books like Bob Woodward’s, that you don’t know what you’re doing there. You have no have a strategy. You don’t listen to dissent. You’ve got this thing in your mind and you’re stubborn and you just can’t win it.<\/p>\n

[tag]BUSH[\/tag]: Well, I’m disappointed that people would propagandize to that effect because the stakes are too high for that kind of illogical behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Illogical behavior”? Is there literally anything about the president’s war policy that is logical? For that matter, which part of the criticism of Bush’s handling of Iraq would the president consider “illogical”?<\/p>\n

And Bush is disappointed about “propagandizing”? If memory serves, this is the guy who recently said, “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

It’s na\u00efve, but I had hoped that, in time, the weight of the office would have an effect on the president, and he’d slowly mature. Lately, I’m convinced Bush is actually getting worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the third time, the [tag]president[\/tag] sat down with Bill [tag]O’Reilly[\/tag] yesterday, for an interview that O’Reilly fully admits would be softball-city. This is a classic exchange — for both of them. O’REILLY: Is one of the reasons they’ve turned against the [tag]war[\/tag] in [tag]Iraq[\/tag] is that the anti-Bush press pounds day in and day […]<\/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-8785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785","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=8785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}