{"id":466,"date":"2004-09-02T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2004-09-02T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T19:54:11","slug":"more-true-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"More True Lies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TrueLies.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">There has been so many blatantly and provably incorrect statements on the RNC&#8217;s podium this week, that it&#8217;s becoming almost tiresome to point them out.<\/p>\n<p>So forgive me if you have become as weary of it as I have, even though I&#8217;ve only bothered to highlight a few of them. But if folks like you and me don&#8217;t take the time to point these out who will? The Mainstream Media?!<\/p>\n<p>In this case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/content\/?ci=12907\" target=\"_blank\">it fell<\/a> to a polling organization, Gallup to be precise, to fact check where the Media has decided to nod off again this year:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b><i>Schwarzenegger was incorrect in his GOP convention speech on Tuesday when he asserted: &#8220;The president didn&#8217;t go into Iraq because the polls told him it was popular. As a matter of fact, the polls said just the opposite.&#8221;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>A majority of Americans supported the idea of the invasion of Iraq before Bush made the decision to commence military action in March 2003. Gallup&#8217;s March 14-15, 2003, poll showed that 64% of Americans favored &#8220;invading Iraq with U.S. ground troops in an attempt to remove Saddam Hussein from power,&#8221; and 57% agreed that the Bush administration &#8220;has made a convincing case about the need for the U.S. to take military action against Iraq.&#8221; A March 17, 2003, CNN\/USA Today\/Gallup poll asked: &#8220;Do you approve or disapprove of Bush&#8217;s decision to go to war if Saddam Hussein does not leave Iraq in the next 48 hours?&#8221; Sixty-six percent of Americans approved; 30% disapproved.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Provably and factually incorrect statements at the GOP Convention. One after another after another.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to &#8220;liberally&#8221; use the <b>&#8220;Email it to Someone!&#8221;<\/b> link at the bottom of ALL the entries here on the BRAD BLOG! It&#8217;s game time, folks! And <i>someone&#8217;s<\/i> gotta show up to play! How about <i>you<\/i>?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been so many blatantly and provably incorrect statements on the RNC&#8217;s podium this week, that it&#8217;s becoming almost tiresome to point them out. So forgive me if you have become as weary of it as I have, even though I&#8217;ve only bothered to highlight a few of them. But if folks like you [&hellip;]<\/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-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}