{"id":5121,"date":"2012-08-29T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2012-08-29T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:36:43","slug":"gop-stoops-to-orwellian-rewriting-of-history-jay-bookman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/gop-stoops-to-orwellian-rewriting-of-history-jay-bookman\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP stoops to Orwellian rewriting of history | Jay Bookman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/jay-bookman-blog\/2012\/08\/29\/gop-stoops-to-orwellian-rewriting-of-history\/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog\">GOP stoops to Orwellian rewriting of history | Jay Bookman<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Taken in context, [Obama] meant that no person or business succeeds alone. For those who care about such things, here are his actual remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLook, if you\u2019ve been successful, you didn\u2019t get there on your own. You didn\u2019t get there on your own. I\u2019m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something <strong>\u2013 there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges.<\/strong> If you\u2019ve got a business \u2014 you didn\u2019t build that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In my mind, it says a lot that the Republicans are building their 2012 convention message, and much of their 2012 campaign, around what they know in their hearts to be a blatant lie. That lie is repeated and repeated and repeated, and it gets no more truthful with each iteration. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/jay-bookman-blog\/2012\/08\/29\/gop-stoops-to-orwellian-rewriting-of-history\/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog\">GOP stoops to Orwellian rewriting of history | Jay Bookman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP stoops to Orwellian rewriting of history | Jay Bookman Taken in context, [Obama] meant that no person or business succeeds alone. For those who care about such things, here are his actual remarks: \u201cLook, if you\u2019ve been successful, you didn\u2019t get there on your own. You didn\u2019t get there on your own. I\u2019m always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/gop-stoops-to-orwellian-rewriting-of-history-jay-bookman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP stoops to Orwellian rewriting of history | Jay Bookman<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","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=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}