{"id":1363,"date":"2004-10-02T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-look\/"},"modified":"2004-10-02T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T18:09:33","slug":"the-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-look\/","title":{"rendered":"The Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Reaction Shots May Tell Tale of Debate (washingtonpost.com)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A1574-2004Oct1.html\">Reaction Shots May Tell Tale of Debate (washingtonpost.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/images\/I1903-2004Oct01\" alt=\"smirk? grimace?\"\/>Bush has flashed such expressions &#8212; and worse &#8212; at reporters when they ask him hostile questions. But <b>the public has generally not seen the president&#8217;s more petulant side, in part because he is rarely challenged in a public venue<\/b>. He has held fewer news conferences than any modern predecessor, Congress is in his party&#8217;s control, and he has a famously loyal staff. In rare instances when Bush has been vigorously challenged &#8212; most recently in interviews with an Irish television journalist and a French magazine &#8212; he has reacted with similar indignation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/mediastore\/ap_bush_150_eng_2oct04.jpg\" alt=\"the look\"\/>As questions continued about Bush&#8217;s demeanor on Thursday night, his aides have changed their explanation of it. On Thursday night, adviser Karen Hughes said: &#8220;On his face, you could see his irritation at the senator&#8217;s misrepresentations.&#8221; But by Friday morning, Mehlman said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that he was irritated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction Shots May Tell Tale of Debate (washingtonpost.com) Bush has flashed such expressions &#8212; and worse &#8212; at reporters when they ask him hostile questions. But the public has generally not seen the president&#8217;s more petulant side, in part because he is rarely challenged in a public venue. He has held fewer news conferences than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-look\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Look<\/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-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","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=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}