{"id":2548,"date":"2004-05-31T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/31\/can-bush-do-anything-but-lie\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:56:32","slug":"can-bush-do-anything-but-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/31\/can-bush-do-anything-but-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Bush do anything but lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post takes a look at the slew of false advertising coming out of the Bush administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n It was a typical week in the life of the Bush reelection machine.<\/p>\n

Last Monday in Little Rock, Vice President Cheney said Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry “has questioned whether the war on terror is really a war at all” and said the senator from Massachusetts “promised to repeal most of the Bush tax cuts within his first 100 days in office.”<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, President Bush’s campaign began airing an ad saying Kerry would scrap wiretaps that are needed to hunt terrorists.<\/p>\n

The same day, the Bush campaign charged in a memo sent to reporters and through surrogates that Kerry wants to raise the gasoline tax by 50 cents.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday and Thursday, as Kerry campaigned in Seattle, he was greeted by another Bush ad alleging that Kerry now opposes education changes that he supported in 2001.<\/p>\n

The charges were all tough, serious — and wrong, or at least highly misleading. Kerry did not question the war on terrorism, has proposed repealing tax cuts only for those earning more than \\$200,000, supports wiretaps, has not endorsed a 50-cent gasoline tax increase in 10 years, and continues to support the education changes, albeit with modifications.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, as Tom Schaller points out on Daily Kos<\/a>, it would be pretty damn difficult for Bush to run any campaign ads that actually told the truth<\/em> about what he’s done for this country.<\/p>\n

iTunes:<\/strong> “Ship Song, The” by Concrete Blonde from the album Still in Hollywood<\/em> (1992, 4:20).

The Washington Post takes a look at the slew of false advertising coming out of the Bush administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}