{"id":1140,"date":"2004-03-13T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/plain-spoken-lies\/"},"modified":"2004-03-13T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T20:02:14","slug":"plain-spoken-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/plain-spoken-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Plain-spoken Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Matt Miller Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mattmilleronline.com\/columns.php?id=86\">BUSH GUTS THE FACTS AGAIN &#8211; WILL THE MEDIA LET HIM?<\/a> by Matt Miller<\/p>\n<p>So what was Bush&#8217;s attack about? There are two ways to look at it: as a measure of <b>how dumb the White House thinks we are<\/b> and as a measure of <b>how anxious the White House<\/b> is a full eight months before November. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is not about facts. It is about <b>planting seeds of mistrust<\/b> [of Kerry]. Which brings us to Bush&#8217;s flip-flop strategy. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Is this rubbish supposed to be the way to lead a nation in a time of &#8221;war&#8221;? This from the man who always boasts that he&#8217;s &#8221;plainspoken&#8221;?  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUSH GUTS THE FACTS AGAIN &#8211; WILL THE MEDIA LET HIM? by Matt Miller So what was Bush&#8217;s attack about? There are two ways to look at it: as a measure of how dumb the White House thinks we are and as a measure of how anxious the White House is a full eight months &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/plain-spoken-lies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plain-spoken Lies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}