{"id":143,"date":"2004-06-14T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=143"},"modified":"2004-06-14T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T22:03:51","slug":"politerrati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Politerrati!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dong said all this better<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The “liberal” media just won’t this Reagan thing go; enough with glorifying past leaders, Great Communicators or otherwise. Back to glorifying the War on Terror, you Bush-whipped hippies.<\/p>\n

Has there ever been a more compelling argument that the media is the mouthpiece for the government when you see Reagan touted as one of the greatest Presidents ever? They’re even considering replacing Jackson on the twenty. As I told MHG and my houseguest the other day, Bush Sr. has had no less than four terms in office now and the Reagan craze is only more proof.<\/p>\n

“Remember Reagan, America? He was considered by many to be senile and was no less a puppet than our current President, only with notably better public speaking skills. Ah, the good ol’ days of trickle-down economics.”<\/p>\n

I’m waiting for Point Break to be taken off of TBS’s rotation due to Patrick Swayze’s defamation of one of our greatest leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dong said all this better. The “liberal” media just won’t this Reagan thing go; enough with glorifying past leaders, Great Communicators or otherwise. Back to glorifying the War on Terror, you Bush-whipped hippies. Has there ever been a more compelling argument that the media is the mouthpiece for the government when you see Reagan touted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-2j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":549,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=549","url_meta":{"origin":143,"position":0},"title":"Colbert Roasts Bush","date":"5\/1\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I know this is everywhere by now, but so that I have the links, I post it here. 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