{"id":3868,"date":"2009-07-09T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2009-07-09T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T17:03:21","slug":"to-see-whats-in-front-of-ones-nose-needs-a-constant-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3868","title":{"rendered":"To See What Is In Front Of One&#8217;s Nose Needs A Constant Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/07\/the-adns-latest.html\">this morning<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sargent <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/political-media\/alaska-paper-digs-deeper-into-our-story-about-palins-dissembling\/\">notes<\/a> that the ADN has pried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/palin\/story\/858523.html\">another bizarre lie<\/a> out of the Palin administration:<\/p>\n<div class=\"blockquote\">Really? Staffers that would otherwise have contributed to police work, road repair, education, and sea research were pulled in to help the governor&rsquo;s office deal with the legal ins and outs of ethics complaints? <em>That&rsquo;s<\/em> the official explanation for Palin&rsquo;s claim now?\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, it will be for the next five minutes. Then another lie will come along. Note in particular that ABC News&#8217; Kate Moss <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/print?id=8016906\">did not even question<\/a> her bizarre claim that she was resigning to save the state &quot;millions&quot; in frivolous lawsuits, a claim that was suspicious on its face, debunked on the blogs and now a proven lie. But on ABC News, stenographers to the powerful, Kate Snow just sat there and let Palin state&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This would be the same ABC News that claimed that Matthew Shepard knew his killers, that he was a druggie, and that his murder was a meth fueled robbery gone bad, not a sickeningly typical-in-its-brutality gay bashing?&nbsp; That ABC News?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t trust their reporting anymore do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan this morning&#8230; Sargent notes that the ADN has pried another bizarre lie out of the Palin administration: Really? Staffers that would otherwise have contributed to police work, road repair, education, and sea research were pulled in to help the governor&rsquo;s office deal with the legal ins and outs of ethics complaints? That&rsquo;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37,102],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-our-feckless-news-media","tag-the-corporate-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}