{"id":2813,"date":"2004-08-06T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T00:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/08\/kerrys-uncomfortable-40-minutes\/"},"modified":"2004-08-06T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2004-08-07T00:28:29","slug":"kerrys-uncomfortable-40-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/kerrys-uncomfortable-40-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry&#8217;s uncomfortable 40 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tNow that Kerry&#8217;s following Michael Moore&#8217;s wishes and bashing the president for sitting still and thinking for a few minutes before rushing into action on 9\/11, it&#8217;s appropriate to check into what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.org\/story\/2004\/8\/5\/113357\/2243\">Sen. Kerry did:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with Larry King on CNN, July 8, 2004, Sen. Kerry was asked where he was the morning of September 11th. Here is part of his response:<\/p>\n<p><em>Kerry: &#8220;&#8230;And as I came in [to a meeting in Sen. Daschle&#8217;s office], Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly <b>thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think,<\/b> and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon&#8230;&#8221; (emphasis added).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. By Kerry&#8217;s own words, he and his fellow senators sat there for forty minutes, realizing &#8220;nobody could think.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what&#8217;s good for the goose isn&#8217;t sauce for the gander, once again. <\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/timblair.spleenville.com\/archives\/007283.php\">Tim Blair, <em>More Flopping from Mr. Flippy<\/em><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Kerry&#8217;s following Michael Moore&#8217;s wishes and bashing the president for sitting still and thinking for a few minutes before rushing into action on 9\/11, it&#8217;s appropriate to check into what Sen. Kerry did: In an interview with Larry King on CNN, July 8, 2004, Sen. Kerry was asked where he was the morning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/kerrys-uncomfortable-40-minutes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerry&#8217;s uncomfortable 40 minutes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Jn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}