{"id":559,"date":"2004-09-15T19:11:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T23:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2004-09-15T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T23:11:57","slug":"sticking-to-the-talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Sticking to the Talking Points&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000557.htm\">the previous story here<\/a>, and then take a look at what Scott McClellan, White House Spokesman said today, once again <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_09_12_americablog_archive.html#109528554488464520\" target=\"_blank\">as reported by<\/a> John Aravosis who also broke the original story:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">MR. McCLELLAN: Well, let me address a couple of things. We&#8217;ve overcome many challenges in this country over the last three years. A number of them go back to what occurred on September 11th. When it comes to the economy, let&#8217;s look at the strains that were placed on our economy. We were in an economic downturn and the President inherited a recession when he came into office. Then you had the September 11th attacks. <b>In the aftermath of September 11th, in the three months after September 11th, we lost a million jobs right there.<\/b>&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/09\/20040915-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mlink\">White House Daily Briefing<\/a>, September 15, 2004<\/div>\n<p>Look, these guys in even <i>lie<\/i> in lockstep. If the Dems could tell the <i>truth<\/i> as clearly, much less as much in lockstep, perhaps they&#8217;d be getting somewhere! Never mind the question of why the blogosphere is reporting this stuff instead of the actual Media.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: 10:25p PT<\/b> I&#8217;m a dolt. I just re-read the quoted text above, and realized I missed McClellan&#8217;s <i>other<\/i> lie in the very same breath! The part about &#8220;the President inherited a recession when he came into office.&#8221; Which, as informed individuals know, is <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2076134\/\" target=\"_blank\">pure crap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the previous story here, and then take a look at what Scott McClellan, White House Spokesman said today, once again as reported by John Aravosis who also broke the original story: MR. McCLELLAN: Well, let me address a couple of things. We&#8217;ve overcome many challenges in this country over the last three years. A [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","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=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}