{"id":741,"date":"2004-08-13T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/08\/catching_up_on_reality\/"},"modified":"2004-08-13T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T19:32:14","slug":"catching_up_on_reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/08\/catching_up_on_reality.html","title":{"rendered":"CATCHING UP ON REALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we were gone a couple of weeks ago, America heard about the Nincompoop in Chief’s
\nbig blooper: “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop
\nthinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” But it’s even
\nweirder seeing him say it. He actually reads<\/I> that passage from a prepared speech, an
\nindication that his writers aren’t too bright either. <\/P>
\n

Go here to see the video<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>: Scroll down to
\n“New Ways to Harm the Country”<\/STRONG> and click on “200k.” While you’re
\non that page, you can also check out a candid moment when the nincompoop shows his classy
\nside: “Bush Cleans His Glasses.”<\/STRONG> And check out
\n“Bushwacked!”<\/STRONG> Bet you’ve never heard him give that State of the
\nUnion speech. The Jay Leno Q&As are fun, too.<\/P>
\n

Finally, if you want to see the Nincompoop in Chief drone haltingly through the entire “New
\nWays to Harm Our Country” speech, go to the official White House website<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>:
\nScroll down and click on the video of “President Signs Defense Bill”<\/STRONG>
\n(Aug. 5, 2004). His delivery is so full of stumbles he barely seems to understands what he’s
\nsaying. It is, if nothing else, a lesson in how not to give a speech.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we were gone a couple of weeks ago, America heard about the Nincompoop in Chief’s big blooper: “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” But it’s even weirder seeing him say it. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-741","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-bX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}