{"id":1221,"date":"2005-08-31T10:08:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T17:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/08\/chief_bullshitters_pompous_pop\/"},"modified":"2005-08-31T10:08:48","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T17:08:48","slug":"chief_bullshitters_pompous_pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/08\/chief_bullshitters_pompous_pop.html","title":{"rendered":"CHIEF BULLSHITTER&#8217;S POMPOUS POPPYCOCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/31\/national\/nationalspecial\/31storm.html\" classs=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Katrina changed the subject.<\/strong><\/font><\/a> So the Bullshitter-in-Chief ended his monthlong vacation by two days, breaking camp at his Texas ranch to rush to Washington &#8212; and we quote the Houston Chronicle here &#8212; &#8220;to coordinate federal relief efforts&#8221; in the wake of the hurricane that swamped New Orleans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/N31329338.htm\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>killed more than 100 people at last count<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, and devastated the lives of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, along the Gulf Coast.<br \/>\nThe Chronicle&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/nation\/3332207\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>headline and subhead<\/strong><\/font><\/a> read like a White House press release posted on a billboard, since it&#8217;s nothing more than the assertion by the chief bullshitter&#8217;s press secretary, who declared his boss &#8220;made the decision that he wanted to go back to D.C. and oversee the response efforts there.&#8221; We don&#8217;t see how anyone can believe such pompous poppycock. And frankly, we can&#8217;t imagine him overseeing anything except his treadmill when he gets back to the Oval Office. Neither do others:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckfush.com\" class=inline target=new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bush_Always_Unprepared.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/bush_Always_Unprepared.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>killed more than 100 people at last count, and devastated the lives of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, along the Gulf Coast. The Chronicle&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-jH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}