{"id":390,"date":"2009-03-26T07:14:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-03-26T07:14:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:14:06","slug":"why-i-didnt-watch-the-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/why-i-didnt-watch-the-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Didn&#039;t Watch the Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/politics\/obamas_prime_time_pitch.html\">four lies from the President<\/a> and one from a reporter laid out by the Annenberg Center&#8217;s FactCheck.org. (Which, without casting aspersions, I think we can all agree is hardly a bastion of the Rush Limbaugh right wing. Check its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/about\/\">staff<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The scary thing about the piece isn&#8217;t that the President&#8217;s a liar. Nobody&#8217;s surprised by that, surely. The scary thing is the chart of Federal deficit projections midway through the &#8220;Analysis&#8221; part of the page.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I don&#8217;t watch press conferences and speeches: because I don&#8217;t want to waste my time being lied to. (Well, this week I also had to try that new <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Lec4H\">Mongolian Beef<\/a> recipe.) There&#8217;s nothing that the President or any other politician has to say to me that I can&#8217;t wait a couple of days to hear. (I like to think of analysis pieces like this one as as the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/A2Dgv\">morning-after burrito<\/a> for politicians.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look here: four lies from the President and one from a reporter laid out by the Annenberg Center&#8217;s FactCheck.org. (Which, without casting aspersions, I think we can all agree is hardly a bastion of the Rush Limbaugh right wing. Check its staff.) The scary thing about the piece isn&#8217;t that the President&#8217;s a liar. Nobody&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-6i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}