{"id":663,"date":"2004-10-02T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T21:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2004-10-02T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T21:47:22","slug":"truth-tellingfact-checking-escape-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Truth-Telling\/Fact-Checking Escape the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Kerry whips past Bush in the polls, it&#8217;s certainly no thanks to the supposedly &#8220;Liberal&#8221; media who have stacked everything against the Democrat as usual. I&#8217;m catching up on a few items today from this week when our server went down. So, with all the media bias (read the previous 9 or 10 items here!) against Kerry, here&#8217;s one take on that from an E.J. Dionne <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A45792-2004Sep23.html\" target=\"_blank\">column<\/a> last week:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">There is one good thing about President Bush&#8217;s new advertisement showing John Kerry windsurfing: Kerry does enjoy windsurfing. <\/p>\n<p>That alone puts the ad on a higher plane of truthfulness than many of the statements the president regularly makes on the campaign trail. A press corps that relentlessly nitpicked Al Gore in 2000 in search of &#8220;little lies&#8221; and exaggerations has given Bush wide latitude to make things up. I guess the incumbent benefits from the soft bigotry of low expectations.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Kerry whips past Bush in the polls, it&#8217;s certainly no thanks to the supposedly &#8220;Liberal&#8221; media who have stacked everything against the Democrat as usual. I&#8217;m catching up on a few items today from this week when our server went down. So, with all the media bias (read the previous 9 or 10 items [&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-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}