{"id":1137,"date":"2005-01-20T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2005-01-20T17:22:41","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T21:22:41","slug":"washington-times-lies-about-inaugural-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"‘Washington Times’ Lies about Inaugural Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we alluded to<\/a> a day or so ago, Sun Myung Moon, owner of Republican “Newspaper” The Washington Times<\/i>, spiritual head of the Unification Church and self-proclaimed Messiah, reportedly glad-handed some $250,000 to the Bush Inaugural Committee<\/a> disguised as a donation from a company called “The Washington Television Center”.<\/p>\n

With all of the recent criticism of the Bush Administration throwing a $50 million inaugural during a time of war, it seems that the White House organ, The Washington Times<\/i>, has now ridden late to the defense of their friends in the Administration by employing some fuzzy math about the “price” of the inaugural.<\/p>\n

They’ve fallen back on the old “Clinton did it” routine notable as the defense employed for all indefensible Bush and\/or Republican actions. They had to lie to do it.<\/p>\n

RAW STORY has the story<\/a> from Salon.com.<\/p>\n

By the way, according to Ken Bode<\/a>, that $250,000 from Moon — the price of an inaugural lunch ticket with Bush\/Cheney — could have fully armored 10 Humvee’s in Iraq. $50 Million could have fully armored 2000 of them. (Not to mention the $10 – $20 million spent on security today and the cost of giving everyone in DC a federal holiday.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we alluded to a day or so ago, Sun Myung Moon, owner of Republican “Newspaper” The Washington Times, spiritual head of the Unification Church and self-proclaimed Messiah, reportedly glad-handed some $250,000 to the Bush Inaugural Committee disguised as a donation from a company called “The Washington Television Center”. With all of the recent criticism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}