{"id":1767,"date":"2005-08-12T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T17:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2005-08-12T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T17:50:39","slug":"downbeay-friday-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"Downbeat Friday: Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, where is that &#8220;liberal&#8221; media that the conservative right screams about constantly? It seems like the Plame Investigation has dropped off the radar of most major news coverage. Amazing.<\/p>\n<p><em>In August of 1972, President Nixon told reporters, &#8220;no one in the White House staff, no one in this administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sounds eerily familiar doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkprogress.org\/leak-scandal\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The cast of administration characters<\/strong><\/a> with known connections to the outing of an undercover CIA agent:<br \/>\nKarl Rove<br \/>\nI. Lewis &#8220;Scooter&#8221; Libby<br \/>\nCondoleezza Rice<br \/>\nStephen Hadley<br \/>\nAndrew Card<br \/>\nAlberto Gonzales<br \/>\nMary Matalin<br \/>\nAri Fleischer<br \/>\nSusan Ralston<br \/>\nIsrael Hernandez<br \/>\nJohn Hannah<br \/>\nScott McClellan<br \/>\nDan Bartlett<br \/>\nClaire Buchan<br \/>\nCatherine Martin<br \/>\nColin Powell<br \/>\nKaren Hughes<br \/>\nAdam Levine<br \/>\nBob Joseph<br \/>\nVice President Dick Cheney<br \/>\nPresident George W. Bush<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What I would really love right now is for <u>any<\/u> Republican to defend what the current administration has been doing. Explain to me what good has come from the last five years of Bush&#8217;s authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, where is that &#8220;liberal&#8221; media that the conservative right screams about constantly? It seems like the Plame Investigation has dropped off the radar of most major news coverage. Amazing. In August of 1972, President Nixon told reporters, &#8220;no one in the White House staff, no one in this administration, presently employed, was involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-sv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}