{"id":1226,"date":"2005-09-07T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/09\/his_bad_idea_and_a_sneer\/"},"modified":"2005-09-07T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T21:50:09","slug":"his_bad_idea_and_a_sneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/09\/his_bad_idea_and_a_sneer.html","title":{"rendered":"HIS BAD IDEA (AND A SNEER)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The bullshitter's sneer.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/The%20bullshitter%27s%20sneer.JPG\" width=140 align=left border=0 \/> Oh, about the Katrina rescue operation: Our Bullshitter-in-Chief &#8220;blithely announced at a photo-op cabinet meeting that he, personally, was going to &#8216;find out what went right and what went wrong.&#8217; We can&#8217;t imagine a worse idea,&#8221; The New York Times said today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/07\/opinion\/07wed1.html?hp\" class=inline target=new\" class=inline target=new\"><STRONG><font color=#003399>an editorial we wish we had written<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Since we didn&#8217;t write it, we&#8217;ll quote it.<br \/>\nIt went on to say, &#8220;[W]e have learned through bitter experience &#8212; the Abu Ghraib nightmare is just one example &#8212; that when this administration begins an internal investigation, it means a whitewash in which no one important is held accountable and no real change occurs.&#8221;  The chief bullshitter himself &#8220;signaled yesterday that we are in for more of the same when he sneered and said, &#8216;One of the things that people want us to do here is to play a blame game.'&#8221;<br \/>\nWhat did we expect? Here he is in his photo-op cabinet meeting with the other bullshitters:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/buckfush.com\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bullshitter-in-Chief and the other bullshitters.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/Bullshitter-in-Chief%20and%20the%20other%20bullshitters.jpg\" width=400 border=0\/><\/center><\/a><br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, about the Katrina rescue operation: Our Bullshitter-in-Chief &#8220;blithely announced at a photo-op cabinet meeting that he, personally, was going to &#8216;find out what went right and what went wrong.&#8217; We can&#8217;t imagine a worse idea,&#8221; The New York Times said today in an editorial we wish we had written. Since we didn&#8217;t write it, [&hellip;]<\/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-1226","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-jM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}