{"id":4052,"date":"2006-09-25T02:46:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T09:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/09\/25\/political-punch\/"},"modified":"2006-09-25T02:46:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T09:46:20","slug":"political-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/25\/political-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tCommenting on former President Clinton&#8217;s psychic meltdown on Fox News Sunday, MSM figure <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2006\/09\/the_truth_about.html\">Jake Tapper finds Clinton is fibbing again.<\/a> Here&#8217;s what Newt Gingrich said about the Osama bombings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think the president did exactly the right thing,&#8221; said House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said. &#8220;By doing this we&#8217;re sending the signal there are no sanctuaries for terrorists.&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) called the attacks &#8220;appropriate and just,&#8221; and House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) said &#8220;the American people stand united in the face of terrorism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that was the typical Republican response. It was the MSM that pushed the &#8220;wag-the-dog&#8221; scenario, not the Republicans, with the exception of crazy John Ashcroft and Dan Coats of Indiana.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on former President Clinton&#8217;s psychic meltdown on Fox News Sunday, MSM figure Jake Tapper finds Clinton is fibbing again. Here&#8217;s what Newt Gingrich said about the Osama bombings: &#8220;I think the president did exactly the right thing,&#8221; said House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said. &#8220;By doing this we&#8217;re sending the signal there are no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/25\/political-punch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Punch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-13m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","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=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}