{"id":927,"date":"2004-11-10T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2007-09-14T14:57:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T21:57:52","slug":"dear-right-wingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Dear Right Wingers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>BuzzFlash<\/i> is running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/contributors\/04\/11\/con04495.html\" target=\"_blank\">a recent editorial of mine<\/a>. It begins this way:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Dear Right Wingers,<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ve been having a pleasant week! It certainly seems like you have been enjoying yourself! It&#8217;s so nice to see you in a good mood. <\/p>\n<p>Though if you would, please remind me again&#8230;were you guys actually able to <i>prove<\/i> that the memos Dan Rather used in his report on Bush&#8217;s National Guard service were <i>actually<\/i> fraudulent? Or did you just come up with enough questions about them that you found enough confidence to go ahead and label them as frauds? Enough certitude about a purposeful case of attempting to disrupt a Presidential campaign that you were able to go ahead and create a whole &#8220;Gate&#8221; out of the matter (&#8220;MemoGate&#8221;, &#8220;RatherGate&#8221;) and then feel confident enough in what you had found to call for the resignation of the reporter who ran the story?<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/contributors\/04\/11\/con04495.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the rest at <i>BuzzFlash<\/i>&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BuzzFlash is running a recent editorial of mine. It begins this way: Dear Right Wingers, I hope you&#8217;ve been having a pleasant week! It certainly seems like you have been enjoying yourself! It&#8217;s so nice to see you in a good mood. Though if you would, please remind me again&#8230;were you guys actually able to [&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":[312,169,8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dan-rather","category-dirty-tricks","category-election-2004","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}