{"id":4770,"date":"2007-07-04T01:07:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T08:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2007-07-04T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T19:15:51","slug":"video-mashup-like-bush-father-like-bush-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4770","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO MASHUP: Like Bush Father Like Bush Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/83JeSwerpvU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"left\"><\/embed>It was fitting that George W. Bush commuted Scooter Libby&#8217;s prison sentence while visiting with Daddy Bush since it was 41 who likely taught him about such dirty tricks. In fact, Bush the Elder took a similar route by pardoning Caspar Weinberger who was indicted for lying to the special prosecutor investigating the Iran\/Contra affair. As <a href=\"http:\/\/thenexthurrah.typepad.com\/the_next_hurrah\/\">Marcy Wheeler<\/a> stated on <em>Democracy Now<\/em> (seen in the video), Senior Bush&#8217;s pardon similarly prevented investigators from discovering his role in the Iran\/Contra scandal. For kicks, you&#8217;ll also see Fox &#8220;News&#8221; pundit, Fred Barnes, mentioning the older Bush&#8217;s pardon of Weinberger <em>in defense<\/em> of 43&#8217;s actions, which might be the reason he is fuzzy with the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer It was fitting that George W. Bush commuted Scooter Libby&#8217;s prison sentence while visiting with Daddy Bush since it was 41 who likely taught him about such dirty tricks. In fact, Bush the Elder took a similar route by pardoning Caspar Weinberger who was indicted for lying to the special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"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":[88,14,206,57],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cia-leak","category-fox-news","category-mashup","category-scooter-libby","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}