{"id":6834,"date":"2009-01-21T17:08:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T01:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6834"},"modified":"2009-01-21T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T01:11:27","slug":"bush-white-house-removed-os-from-computer-keyboards-on-the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6834","title":{"rendered":"Bush White House Removed O&#8217;s From Computer Keyboards on the Way Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markcrispinmiller.com\/2009\/01\/nbc-abc-repeat-old-anti-clinton-lies.html\">Via Mark Crispin Miller&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Apparently the propaganda myth that Clinton&#8217;s people vandalized the White House before leaving it to Bush &#038; Co. (I remember hearing it from Bob Novak on CNN) has become &#8220;the truth,&#8221; at least according to both NBC and ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>From Stephen Schneider:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MCM:<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I personally heard both NBC and ABC propagate the long-since debunked story that the outgoing Clintonistas in 2001 removed the &#8220;W&#8221;s from the White House computers. Whoever said it on ABC (I was in a pizza place at the time, and the sound was kinda low, so I didn&#8217;t get an ID) appeared to present it as an accepted fact. <\/p>\n<p>NBC&#8217;s Brian Williams was a bit cagier, saying, &#8220;We all remember the story about &#8230; &#8221; and then doing nothing to discredit its veracity. <\/p>\n<p>In each case, the context was to laud President Bush&#8217;s alleged grace and gentility in ceding the office to Obama, as opposed to the rudeness he himself had purportedly weathered.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t hear any such commentary on CBS, but it&#8217;s entirely possible it got in there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Bush: booed by 2 million, buoyed by 2 networks. And they wonder where blogging came from.<\/p>\n<p>SS<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Mark Crispin Miller&#8230; Apparently the propaganda myth that Clinton&#8217;s people vandalized the White House before leaving it to Bush &#038; Co. (I remember hearing it from Bob Novak on CNN) has become &#8220;the truth,&#8221; at least according to both NBC and ABC News. From Stephen Schneider: MCM: Yesterday, I personally heard both NBC and [&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":[326,188,23],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abc","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-nbc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834","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=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}